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The Cooperative AI Conference: When Workers Take the Wheel

A Platform Cooperativism Consortium reflection on cooperative AI, shared infrastructure, democratic governance, and worker-led technological agency.

Source: Platform Cooperativism ConsortiumAdded June 12, 2026Published 2025
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As democratic organizations scale into digital infrastructure and AI, governance has to include data, compute, tools, and ownership of technical systems.

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Platform co-ops, researchers, and builders thinking about democratic governance in technology-heavy organizations.

This resource is useful because it expands the scaling conversation beyond company size. It asks how cooperative governance can apply to digital infrastructure and emerging technologies, which is increasingly relevant for modern democratic organizations.

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