An Uber-like app for nursing gigs?
Reporter Varsha Bansal talks to Katie Wells, a senior fellow at AI Now Institute, about gig nursing apps — think Uber or Hinge for nursing.
AI Now Institute
Jun 2, 2026
To Save Democracy, We Need to Reimagine the Economy
When your paycheck is determined by an opaque algorithm that pits you against your neighbor in a race to the bottom, the political agency required for a functioning democracy evaporates.
AI Now Institute
Jun 2, 2026
Union Seeks Ban on ‘Surveillance Pricing’ at Grocery Stores
As grocery stories roll out electronic shelf labels, AI Now's Dr. Katie Wells comments on the lack of transparency and accountability around whether retailers use algorithmic pricing practices.
AI Now Institute
May 19, 2026
Your boss’s AI may already be reading your Slack messages
Amba Kak, executive director of the AI Now Institute at New York University, previously told CNBC that the rise in message monitoring is concerning—not just because of what employees might say, but because of how doing so infringes on their rights.
AI Now Institute
May 19, 2026
Down With the AI Overlords—With Sarah Myers West
AI Now's Sarah Myers West joins the Fighting Fascism podcast to discuss how AI is concentrating power among a handful of oligarchs—and how its future could be made more democratic.
AI Now Institute
May 12, 2026
Europe’s AI translation industry told it risks reputation by partnering with US firms
Leevi Saari, AI Now's EU Policy Fellow, discusses the pull of the AI industry in the U.S., and how it impacts companies and economies in Europe.
AI Now Institute
May 7, 2026
Musk v Altman and the ‘manifest destiny’ of AI
Billionaire tech CEOs like to claim that they're the only ones we can trust to be in charge of AI and its impacts on the world. “It reminds me of manifest-destiny language,” said Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of AI Now,
AI Now Institute
May 6, 2026
AI is disrupting nursing as Uber-like apps grow and set earnings and work schedules
The gig-work apps for nursing share parallels with Uber and other established gig-work apps, said AI Now's Katie Wells. For both groups of apps, algorithms play a prominent role in how users work, from determining pay to handling potential account deactivations.
AI Now Institute
May 3, 2026
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
When Anthropic touted the capabilities of its new model, Mythos, some criticized their fear-based marketing while others doubted the claims. AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf says we need more transparency in order to substantiate what Anthropic's says: "I think there are a lot of cracks in this narrative that Mythos is all powerful, we can't release it."
AI Now Institute
Apr 29, 2026
The tech industry is applying an Uber-style ‘gigification’ model to nursing. It means no workers’ comp, AI managers, and ‘surveillance wages’
In a similar vein to ridesharing apps, the "gigification" of health care might come at the expense of worker security and even allow companies to sidestep regulations, according to AI Now's new report on the state of nursing gig work.
AI Now Institute
Apr 23, 2026
Nurses Sound Alarm as ‘Uber for Nursing’ Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare
A new AI Now Institute report published April 21, 2026, warns that gig-work platforms marketed as "Uber for nursing" are aggressively lobbying states to rewrite healthcare staffing rules, a push that could leave nurses with less pay, fewer protections, and less control over their shifts, according to The Guardian.
AI Now Institute
Apr 22, 2026
‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds
Billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the “Uber for nursing” industry in an effort to expand gig work in the healthcare sector, according to a report published on Tuesday.
AI Now Institute
Apr 21, 2026
‘Safety first’ puts Anthropic ahead in game of AI spin
Dr Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at AI Now, is skeptical. She notes Anthropic provides no comparison with existing automated security tools, nor any false-positive rates.
AI Now Institute
Apr 12, 2026
‘Too powerful for the public’: inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war
“Mythos is a strategic announcement to show that they’re open for business,” said Dr. Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at AI Now, saying Anthropic’s release limitation prevented independent experts from evaluating the company’s claims.
AI Now Institute
Apr 12, 2026
AI companies know they have an image problem. Will funding policy papers and thinktanks dig them out?
“The OpenAI paper has a lot of the sounds of wanting more regulatory oversight,” said Sarah Myers West, co-executive director at AI Now. “But then when you look under the hood, they have lobbied very successfully for an administration that has taken a very aggressive deregulatory stance toward AI.”
AI Now Institute
Apr 12, 2026
The Great AI Grift
Tech leaders want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold, government-backed heist.
AI Now Institute
Apr 8, 2026
Why Anthropic won’t release its new Claude Mythos AI model to the public
Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, a U.S.-based research institute, said Anthropic’s detailed blog post explaining the new vulnerabilities left out many key details needed to verify its claims.
AI Now Institute
Apr 8, 2026
AI Giants Go on Charm Offensive to Avert Public Backlash
But broad skepticism and fear about the impact of AI have made opposing all regulation untenable for tech company CEOs, said Kak, who is co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which has advocated for AI regulation. If they can’t oppose every policy, “What’s the next best move?” she asked. “It’s to place yourself in the driver’s seat, and that is what every single one of them is doing.”
AI Now Institute
Apr 7, 2026
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