As everyone and everything in our environment becomes interconnected, politics as we know it is becoming a new game. Already, tiny disruptions can have cascading effects – think cyber-attacks or stock market crashes, right-wing resentment or hashtag-based protests. Such ambient revolts are increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI), involving human interaction, but seemingly beyond human control. What are the implications of this development for regressive and repressive tendencies? What are emancipatory movements up against? What is the political potential of small acts in everyday life? What regulations of AI systems will allow democracy to survive? In their “Ambient Revolts” video talk Mathana (aka Matthew Stender) tackle these largely unexplored questions.