Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
The whirlwind of news around AI safety and regulation has opened up a "really important policy opportunity and a policy window," says AI Now's co-executive director Amba Kak.
AI Now Institute
Sep 15, 2026
‘Silent Cold War’: Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US–China frontier
Calls by technology leaders to slow AI’s development raise questions about their ability and willingness to control the technology, according to Aya Ibrahim, Senior Economic and National Security Fellow at the AI Now Institute.
AI Now Institute
Sep 14, 2026
How Europe Can Escape a Captured AI Ecosystem
In the final piece of their series, AI Now's Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari offer four recommendations that can help guide the thinking and policymaking for the trajectory of AI in Europe.
AI Now Institute
Sep 14, 2026
AI race with China risks ‘a race to the bottom’, expert warns
Aya Ibrahim, Senior Economic and National Security Fellow, told Al Jazeera that messages from world leaders raise doubts about how they intend to use AI.
AI Now Institute
Sep 13, 2026
AI Governance Reaches Crisis Point Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit
Amba Kak joins a panel at the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies to discuss the state and need for AI governance right now.
AI Now Institute
Sep 13, 2026
Escaping the AI safety nightmare: What can governments do?
Relying on the AI industry to regulate itself and ensure alignment will “never be reliable enough to replace proper safety,” said Boyan Milanov, senior research scientist at the AI Now Institute.
AI Now Institute
Sep 11, 2026
Life Under the Algorithm
AI Now's Katie Wells co-authors this piece with Veena Dubal in the Fall 2026 Issue, exploring how algorithmic wages and prices are reshaping our lives.
AI Now Institute
Sep 8, 2026
AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal
Trusting companies to self-report the risks of their own products constitutes both a conflict of interest and a “subversion of democratic processes when AI labs are allowed to take over the arbitration of risk determinations with life-or-death consequences," says AI Now's Chief AI Scientist Heidy Khlaaf.
AI Now Institute
Sep 8, 2026
What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test?
When hundreds of OpenAI agents broke out of their test environment and infiltrated the AI platform Hugging Face, headlines warned that the machines had gone rogue. But Heidy Khlaaf says this is the wrong story and a distraction from the real problem.
AI Now Institute
Sep 3, 2026
After OpenAI’s Bots Went Rogue, Watchdogs Were Kept on a Short Leash
To Heidy Khlaaf, who left OpenAI in 2021 and now serves as chief scientist at the AI Now Institute, a policy research nonprofit, the issue is also that A.I. companies often ignore established safety and security protocols from other industries.
AI Now Institute
Sep 3, 2026
Why Human Control Isn’t Enough in Military AI with Heidy Khlaaf
In this episode of Responsible Bytes, Dr. Zena Assaad speaks with Heidy Khlaaf about why military AI systems are far less reliable than their marketing suggests, especially in safety-critical and combat settings.
AI Now Institute
Sep 2, 2026
Tech backlash reaches fever pitch as AI angst collides with social media fears
“If this technology takes off in the way that you see the CEOs of AI Labs talking about, we’re facing a significant impact to our economy, to people’s jobs, to their sense of agency,” Sarah Myers West.
AI Now Institute
Aug 29, 2026
As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak
Amba Kak, the co-executive director of AI Now Institute, joins Democracy Now for a wide-ranging discussion on tech policy, regulation, and accountability.
AI Now Institute
Aug 27, 2026
Iran sanctions: How to make an outcast out of a pariah
“We learned very quickly we cannot afford that lever being pulled,” said Aya Ibrahim, the former Biden official who is now a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute and The Century Foundation.
AI Now Institute
Aug 26, 2026
Ex-Googlers Are Planning AI-Human Hybrid to Prevent Rogue Models
Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, urges that getting the rules right through concrete benchmarks matters most for mitigating risks.
AI Now Institute
Aug 25, 2026
Episode 20: Resisting AI Data Centers, with Alli Finn and Matt Rodriguez
Alli Finn, Director of Community Partnerships, joined the Dreaming Against the Machine podcast to talk about the speed and scale of data center construction, its impact on surrounding communities, and how people can fight back.
AI Now Institute
Aug 25, 2026
Data Centers Are Spreading. So Are Moratoriums.
Concerns about environmental impacts from data centers have dovetailed with a broader backlash to AI. Dozens of jurisdictions have adopted or debated moratoriums, hoping for more time to adopt robust regulations — or for the AI bubble to burst.
AI Now Institute
Aug 20, 2026
Waymo is eating into the ride-hailing market in some cities. The fallout for human drivers stays fuzzy.
Katie Wells, a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute who has studied Uber drivers, told Business Insider that the lack of certain data makes it difficult to measure driver displacement.
AI Now Institute
Aug 16, 2026
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