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# Workers Are Finding Creative Ways to Resist AI at Work
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/workers-are-finding-creative-ways-to-resist-ai-at-work/
- Published: 2026-08-11T16:10:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-11T16:10:24.000Z
- Description: As AI adoption accelerates across professional environments, a counter-movement of workers—from knowledge workers to creatives—are deliberately opting out, using analog systems (paper to-do lists, hand-written notes) and friction-laden workflows as deliberate resistance strategies.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-consumer, attention economy, creator economy, trust

Source: [Kottke](https://kottke.org/26/08/0049472-stories-of-people-finding?ref=adjacent.media)

As AI adoption accelerates across professional environments, a counter-movement of workers—from knowledge workers to creatives—are deliberately opting out, using analog systems (paper to-do lists, hand-written notes) and friction-laden workflows as deliberate resistance strategies. Workers are exercising agency over their labor by rejecting algorithmic efficiency, suggesting that mandatory AI integration may face grassroots friction from the people it's supposed to help.