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What Should the Rules for A.I. Companies Actually Be? We Asked the Experts.

AI Now's Senior Director Kate Brennan joined a roundtable discussion with AI experts and leaders, pushing the conversation away from abstract risk and toward the very real harms caused by AI companies willing to gamble with our lives and our economy.

The big tech defectors you’re not hearing about

AI Now's journalist in residence Brian Merchant reflects on the People's AI Assembly, held in NYC on October 19th.

“Apocalypse Now and Then”: Author Arundhati Roy on Artificial Intelligence, Capitalism & More

Following the People's AI Assembly, acclaimed author Arundhati Roy joins Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh to discuss the rise of artificial intelligence, which she calls "capitalism's final destination."

Amid AI Boom, “Risk Is Spreading Throughout the Economy”: Astra Taylor & Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join a wide-ranging conversation on the multitrillion-dollar global investment in artificial intelligence and its reverberating effects around the world.

Zohran Mamdani Backs Major Expansion of New York’s Data Center Moratorium

At the People's AI Assembly, hosted by AI Now and More Perfect Union, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and comedian Ilana Glazer discuss data center expansion and how the public can reassert control over AI.

Mamdani says feds have abdicated on AI, urges New Yorkers to push back

At The People’s AI Assembly, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani argued that the technology’s rapid rollout is not inevitable and that public officials should hold AI companies accountable.

New York City Mayor Mamdani on Artificial Intelligence and Tech Innovation

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani discussed artificial intelligence and tech innovation at an event co-hosted by AI Now Institute and More Perfect Union.

The $5 Trillion AI Bet You’re Already Paying For

Co-executive director Amba Kak joins Agents of Tech to unpack the consolidation of power among tech monopolies, the slow bailout of AI companies that the public is footing, regulation for the industry, and more.

Jennifer Huddleston and Sarah Myers West on Artificial Intelligence Regulation

AI Now's Co-Executive Director Sarah Myers West joined the Washington Journal to talk about how artificial intelligence should be regulated.

AI Now’s Aashna Agarwal Testifies before NYC Council Committee of the Whole

How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

AI Now's Senior Research Scientist, Boyan Milanov, points out how AI doomerism isn't based on any scientific work and that calls for regulation from within the industry are, in reality, attempts by AI companies to set their own standards.

White House Releases Taxpayer-Funded Midterm Ads

In the wake of NVIDIA's announcement of a new agent safety platform, AI Now's Aya Ibrahim joins "Balance of Power" to warn against "one-size-fits-all" security steps.

AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care

Despite concerns and warnings about the harms of their technology, AI companies are still pushing for and promoting their products as instrumental in national infrastructure. AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf says that acknowledging these issues wouldn't be profitable for AI companies.

Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate

In an op-ed, AI Now's Chief AI Scientist Heidy Khlaaf writes: From aviation to banking, high-risk industries are subject to independent oversight and meaningful penalties. AI companies should be no exception.

Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype

“AI’s low reliability and accuracy rates in critical environments with life-or-death consequences” are of much greater concern to [AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf] than are threats of the technology wiping out humanity, which she calls “fear-mongering”.

Is this how the world ends? Extinction scenarios are taking over the AI debate.

Policymakers have a track record of being deferential when dealing with the tech sector, says AI Now's Aya Ibrahim. “When it comes to tech issues, there’s just this culture of learned helplessness from the same policymakers that sit on energy and commerce [committees] and oversee the FDA and prescription drugs,” topics where they don’t question their right to govern.

What’s really motivating these AI apocalypse stories?

"Nobody is helped if we have an unregulated sector that's engaged in the race to the bottom. That's what we're seeing right here and now," says AI Now's Sarah Myers West on The Listening Post show.

Hugging Face Hack Shows Humans Can Keep AI In Check

Weeks after the OpenAI hack, AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf affirms that "ordinary security engineering would have stopped this well short of reaching Hugging Face’s data."