Sabotage: Manifesto On Algorithmic

The Manifesto on Algorithmic Sabotage (attributed to various anonymous or pseudonymous authors, sometimes linked to labor activism or critical theory) argues that in an era of automated management, surveillance, and algorithmic control, traditional forms of workplace resistance (strikes, sabotage of physical machinery) are obsolete. Instead, it calls for subverting algorithms from within —through data poisoning, deliberately misleading metrics, gaming recommendation systems, and exploiting feedback loops to degrade automated decision-making.

Paths to systemic change

The enemy has three heads:

The manifesto outlines several radical shifts in how individuals and collectives should engage with the "algorithmic empire": Refusal of Humiliation manifesto on algorithmic sabotage