An anonymous tipline. A growing record. A public service.
Your job made you use AI. Tell us how it went.
The AI Anonymous Tipline collects stories from the people rolled over by the AI rollout, and the coworkers watching it happen. The mandates that made no sense. The things you saw and cannot unsee. The quiet refusals, the "malicious compliance," the work that mysteriously takes longer now. We believe you. We will tell your story.
Submit your storyWhat we're collecting
Three kinds of stories. All anonymous.
Every corporation, school, and institution is rolling AI out from the top down. Almost nobody asked the people on the receiving end. Have you been told to use AI at work? Seen a rollout go sideways? Quietly refusing, or complying in the most malicious way available? We want the receipts, the wreckage, and the resistance.
What They're Asking
Done to you.
What did your boss, your school, your client, your platform tell you to do with AI? Describe the memo. Recount the meeting. Show us the policy that forgot to ask.
Open for submissions
What You're Seeing
Seen by you.
You do not have to be the target. What did you watch happen? The colleague who lost the plot. The rollout that broke everything. The number nobody wants to explain. If you saw it with your own eyes and it was absurd, we want it.
Open for submissions
How You're Responding
Done by you.
How are you slow-walking it? Faking it? Sandbagging it? Maliciously complying? Letting the bad output go up the chain without correction? We want the small refusals and the elaborate ones.
Open for submissions
You are not alone in this.
Every submission becomes part of a growing record of what AI rollouts look like from the ground, and how we're pushing back. We will publish what we learn, paraphrased and anonymized and organized by industry, so you can read what workers in healthcare, insurance, tech, education, and beyond told us about their version of the same thing happening to you.
What you get back
A shared record of what's happening to all of us, and how we're pushing back.
The first submissions arrived before this site existed, sent to Baratunde directly after two Instagram posts. The record is already forming.
Read this before you submit
The honest pact.
Anonymity online is not a button. It's a set of trade-offs. These are some of ours.
What we do.
- We do not ask for your name, email, or phone number.
- We do not record your IP address, your device, or anything else that identifies you. We store your story and your optional contact details separately, linked only by a reference number, so that neither one alone identifies you.
- If you leave the contact field blank, we have no way to reach you, and neither does anyone else.
- We paraphrase every story and strip identifying details before anything is published.
- If you want your submission deleted, email us at the address on your confirmation page with your reference number, and we'll do so in a timely manner.
What we can't promise.
- If your story contains details only you would know, your employer may recognize you from the story alone. We will paraphrase aggressively. You should too.
- We are storytellers, not security engineers, and no website is perfectly safe. Our hosting provider handles the traffic to this page and may keep network-level records the way any web host does, which we do not have access to and cannot delete. If your situation is high-stakes, wait for the Signal channel and we will announce it here.
- Your story and your contact details are stored with Notion, a third-party service, in two separate places under our account. We chose who on our team can open each one. We cannot promise what a company we do not run will do with a legal demand.
Submit anonymously
Tell us your story.
No name. No email required. We read every submission. We will not write back unless you give us a way to reach you.
The short version: we anonymize your story, we may edit and publish it, and you can have it deleted by email. The full pact is above.
Who's behind this
Who and what's behind this
Life With Machines
Life With Machines is a public interest media company focused on helping us live well with tech and not just endure it, by bringing clarity, critique, curiosity, and some comedy to the AI discourse. It exists as a podcast, a YouTube channel, a newsletter, and that thought in the back of your mind you can't quite put a name to.
Baratunde Thurston
Host and co-creator of Life With Machines, 2026 Webby People's Voice winner for Best Creative Use of AI and Technology. Host of How To Citizen and PBS's America Outdoors. Previously Director of Digital at The Onion and Supervising Producer at The Daily Show. Author, speaker, and storyteller on technology, power, democracy, and how we live well together.
Disclosure and Disclaimer. Most of this site was built by Claude Code, and it assisted with the database setup in Notion. The copy was drafted with AI assistance, then edited and approved by humans. Email correspondence with us is correspondence with humans. No AI reads your submission before a human does, and no AI decides what gets published. Anonymizing submissions currently involves no AI, though open-weight and locally-run models are under consideration.
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