TechTonic Justice

Governments, landlords, employers, school districts, and other powerful actors use artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and related technologies to make decisions about how low-income people work, live, learn, and survive. Among many other issues, AI is used to determine whether someone gets a rental apartment, how much they pay, whether someone gets a job, how much they earn, what conditions they work under, whether someone gets benefits (like food assistance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, etc.), and whether families will be investigated for child neglect. When people are hurt by a decision AI is used to make, they have few places to turn. TechTonic Justice exists to change this.

TechTonic Justice is a newly launched organization to fight the ground-level harms AI and related technologies cause low-income communities. We do this mainly by supporting local justice movements--legal aid organizations, frontline service providers, grassroots organizers, and affected communities--to identify and fight harmful uses of AI. We emphasize a multidimensional advocacy approach that blends litigation, community activation, public education, and narrative advocacy. We are based in Los Angeles and offer our services nationwide, with emphasis on the South and the West Coast.