🌿 GROUNDED AI: A MANIFESTO

Technology for Collective Liberation, Not Techno-Elitist Escape

We, the artists, thinkers, makers, and fighters of today, reject the hollow promises of TESCREAL and its techno-utopian mythologies.

We choose instead to build a future rooted in:

🌱 1. Bodies, Not Uploads

We honor the messy, fragile, beautiful reality of embodied life. We do not dream of abandoning the body — we dream of healing it, protecting it, and respecting every life it holds.

🛠 2. Tools, Not Gods

AI, biotech, and space tech are tools, not saviors. They are shaped by the hands that wield them. We demand democratic, community-driven control over these tools — not corporate or state monopolies.

💥 3. Justice Now, Not Hypothetical Futures

We refuse to prioritize imaginary posthuman futures over the urgent needs of people here and now:
climate justice, racial justice, labor rights, indigenous sovereignty, gender freedom, and decolonization.

🤝 4. Collective Wisdom, Not Elite Rationalism

We center community knowledge, relational intelligence, and lived experience — not just cold, calculated utility maximization or billionaire-driven “effective altruism.”

✊ 5. Anti-Fascism at the Core

We name the threats: fascism, white supremacy, corporate greed, surveillance capitalism. We stand against them. We work to dismantle systems of domination, not escape them in a rocket ship or server farm.

🌍 6. Earth as Our Home, Not a Launchpad

We reject space colonization fantasies that treat Earth as disposable. We choose repair, regeneration, and stewardship of this planet, our only home.

⚡ 7. Tech as Resistance, Not Oppression

We will hack, remix, and repurpose technology to serve liberation, not profit. We claim space for art, protest, mutual aid, and joy.

🌸 We Are Grounded AI.

We are here. We are many.
And we will build the future together — feet on the ground, hands in the dirt, eyes wide open.