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TechTonic Justice For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power.

Founded by Kevin De Liban We're a nonprofit that fights the ground-level harms that AI and related technologies cause low-income communities.

Why does every story about AI seem so terrible?According to our founder, Kevin De Liban, it comes down to accountability...
07/11/2026

Why does every story about AI seem so terrible?

According to our founder, Kevin De Liban, it comes down to accountability and incentives.

“The problem is the incentive structures aren’t in place to ever create good uses of AI at scale,” he told Dame Magazine (Tag). “...when you have this vacuum of accountability, all the incentives are to do wrong, to do harm.”

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Stronger regulations can prevent harm, protect people, and repair damage when things go wrong.

Read the full Dame Magazine article here: https://www.damemagazine.com/2026/10/21/ai-doesnt-have-to-be-this-harmful/

Do you want AI to make critical decisions about your life?From schools to healthcare to jobs, automated decisions often ...
07/11/2026

Do you want AI to make critical decisions about your life?

From schools to healthcare to jobs, automated decisions often lead to unjust outcomes for low-income people, who have the fewest resources to fight back.

So let’s hear it: Where DON’T you want AI in your life?

Drop your answer in the comments. The best responses will make our next list. 👇

A big step forward in Nebraska. ⚖️A judge has allowed Nicholas Bessey’s lawsuit to move forward. It challenges the AI-po...
06/11/2026

A big step forward in Nebraska. ⚖️

A judge has allowed Nicholas Bessey’s lawsuit to move forward. It challenges the AI-powered tool Nebraska uses to decide funding for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

After the state introduced an algorithm-based assessment, Nicholas’s annual Medicaid funding was cut by nearly $70,000. His complaint says the state never adequately explained how or why.

Now he has the chance to challenge a process that makes life-altering decisions about people’s care.

We’re proud to have filed this suit on Nicholas’s behalf alongside Legal Aid of Nebraska (), Nebraska Appleseed (), and National Health Law Program.

Read the full article (paywall) at the link in our bio.

05/11/2026

📨 POV: You just got a rejection letter that feels a little... off.

When public benefits get denied, most people think they’ve done something wrong. Usually, that’s not the case. You just never get to know what’s behind the curtain.

The government doesn’t normally tell you when an AI system was involved in a decision that affects your life. But you have rights and ways to investigate.

Start by contacting the government agency that denied you. If you manage to get a human on the phone, ask four simple questions.

Save this for your next rejection letter, or share with someone who just got denied and doesn’t know why.

🏠 Tenants across the country face higher rents due to price-setting AI.This software lets landlords share confidential i...
04/11/2026

🏠 Tenants across the country face higher rents due to price-setting AI.

This software lets landlords share confidential information in exchange for pricing recommendations, according to the Justice Department.

The Justice Department filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against one software company, which chose to settle the case. Now, some states are taking action too.

But the threat is still out there, and you’re the one who will pay the price. Send this to someone whose rent went up this year.

Let's talk about how artificial intelligence is impacting young adults from marginalized communities.📅 Tuesday, November...
02/11/2026

Let's talk about how artificial intelligence is impacting young adults from marginalized communities.

📅 Tuesday, November 10th
🕦 10:30 am ET
📍 Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2168

Join TTJ's National Director of Civil Rights and Technology Clarence Okoh for an in-person Hill briefing on youth and AI. Hosted by the Twin Cities Innovation Alliance, NOTICE Coalition, and the Communities for Just Schools Fund.

Spots are limited, so make sure to register by November 6! 🔗: https://sites.google.com/view/no-data-about-us-without-us/event-details?authuser=0&pli=1

🚨 BREAKING: A Nebraska court just refused to throw out a lawsuit challenging the state’s secret disability-funding formu...
31/10/2026

🚨 BREAKING: A Nebraska court just refused to throw out a lawsuit challenging the state’s secret disability-funding formula.

What would you do if the state cut your care by about 35% and couldn’t tell you why? ⚖️

Here’s what you need to know:

Nicholas Bessey is a Nebraskan with developmental disabilities. He relies on Medicaid services to live safely in his community, near friends and family. His condition hadn’t improved. After a state assessment called interRAI, his yearly budget was cut by roughly a third anyway.

The lawsuit says Nebraska feeds people’s answers into undisclosed scoring rules that set their funding. Families can’t check the math. And you can’t fight a decision you’re not allowed to see.

The state asked the court to dismiss the case. Yesterday, a Lancaster County judge said no. The case moves forward.

People at the state chose this system and chose to keep its rules hidden. Now they’ll have to defend those choices in court.

TechTonic Justice is proud to be part of this case with Legal Aid of Nebraska, Nebraska Appleseed, and National Health Law Program.

👉 Follow along as the case moves forward, and share this with someone who depends on Medicaid services.

⚖️ What does Prevent, Protect, Repair mean for your community?It means a seat at the table when powerful people decide h...
28/10/2026

⚖️ What does Prevent, Protect, Repair mean for your community?

It means a seat at the table when powerful people decide how AI shapes your future.
It means the power to shut down AI systems actively harming people like you.
It means restoring what you lost when an algorithm made a life-changing decision for you.
It means FINALLY getting a human on the line when something goes wrong.

TechTonic Justice's new policy framework puts communities at the center of AI governance, giving you real, legally-binding authority over how this technology is used.

It's a glimpse of what stronger AI policy could look like:

💰 Financial compensation to people who wrongfully lost public benefits.
🗣️ Hearings where communities & governments can request AI systems be decommissioned.
🧾 A tech tax on companies developing AI that finances AI justice enforcement.

If you're a community leader, an AI justice advocate, or someone who's just had enough, follow us to get the full document as soon as it comes out.

⚠️ AI policy shouldn't be treated as abstract. The consequences of AI wrongdoing are anything but.Today, algorithms are ...
26/10/2026

⚠️ AI policy shouldn't be treated as abstract. The consequences of AI wrongdoing are anything but.

Today, algorithms are involved in decisions that strip poor and working-class people of their public benefits, housing, healthcare, jobs, and education. These are basic human rights.

That's why our laws should hold companies & governments that build and employ AI systems to the highest standard.

“Prevent, Protect, Repair” is TechTonic Justice's response to community demands for a different approach to AI governance. This policy framework puts communities at the center, especially where regulations touch social policy and economic justice.

PREVENT calls for banning AI uses that are incompatible with basic human needs. These include public benefits decisions, fraud investigations, health insurance enrollment, and coverage for care.

PROTECT outlines a strategy for oversight, including setting up publicly accessible pre-deployment testing, authorizing "off-switches" to pause or decommission harmful AI systems, and publishing ongoing independent evaluations of AI systems.

REPAIR offers mechanisms for accountability and redress, including compensation for losses, setting clear timelines for harmful systems to be corrected, and authorizing meaningful penalties for institutions that use harmful AI systems.

This is just a starting point, not an all-or-nothing proposal. It leaves space for policymakers and community advocates to build: sections can become state laws, city ordinances, agency rules, contract terms, organizing demands, and more.

Are you with us? Join our webinar to learn more! Link here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8QJ6225aQ2yfFPG7zUX1SA #/registration

23/10/2026

⚠️ Your SNAP benefits cut off with no explanation. Your rent raised arbitrarily. Your job application rejected in minutes.

AI systems are already making decisions about you and your life – and the consequences are real and damaging.

That’s why AI isn’t a niche technology issue, and why meaningful AI policy needs to be implemented yesterday.

“Prevent, Protect, Repair” is TechTonic Justice’s policy framework for governing AI where it touches basic human needs: benefits, housing, healthcare, education, employment.

We want communities to have real power over how AI is used—before, during, and after these systems are deployed. That means we can stop, shape, and remedy harmful AI. We don’t just leave our lives in the hands of the corporations and governments using it against us.

Follow along. The full framework is coming. Real accountability is what we seek.

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