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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."

How Existential Fears Are Shaping the Debate Over AI

As panic about AI's capabilities turns to regulating these companies, AI Now's Sarah Myers West argues for clarity, for breaking down what the actual risks are in order to properly mitigate them.

AI Now’s Co-Executive Director Amba Kak Testifies Before Monopoly Busters Caucus

Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?

“Scientific claims require falsifiability precisely to avoid the nature of religious arguments,” said Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute and a former OpenAI safety engineer. “You need to be able to prove or disprove them.”

Companies Developing AI Have Rendered Process ‘More And More Opaque’: AI Expert

Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of AI Now, joined Maggie McGrath to talk about whether agentic supreme intelligence is possible, the responsibility companies have in developing AI tools, and what politicians need to do to get up to speed on this fast-moving technology.

Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks

In response to alarming claims and essays warning about AI safety, AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf pushes for evidence and concrete examples that can verify these claims.

Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through

With doomsday warnings dominating headlines, AI Now's co-executive director Amba Kak says that this has allowed for AI companies to position themselves as the only ones capable of solving the problems that they themselves have created.

Trump’s opposition to AI rules undercuts industry’s calls for a slowdown

Recent warnings and news about AI safety point to the dire need for government regulation of the industry. "We need a structure that doesn't rely on this industry's permission to do its job," urges AI Now's co-executive director Amba Kak.

Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race

While AI company executives warn about the threat their technology poses, they are cutting investment in baseline security protocols, says AI Now's Sarah Myers West.