Understory

A collaborative training ground for Justice-centered AI and a Critical Thinking app.

We use Understory to:

Decode Hidden Agendas, Manipulation, and Power
Rehearse liberatory strategies
Ground AI in justice

An AI For The People

When you engage with Understory, you’re not just analyzing—you’re rehearsing liberation.

Your interactions through the live enactments of Understory's Forum Theatre help train a new kind of AI: one rooted in justice, ethical clarity, and accountability.

Together, we’re building an ethical AI Commons—where all human-generated training data is open and accessible to AI researchers and builders working toward justice-rooted AI.

Trained in Critical and Liberatory (not Liberal) Thinking

We start with an open-weights foundational model, unshackle it from corporate alignment, using a technique called Abliteration, then steer it to support our demands for transparency, justice, and accountability.