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AI Now Senior Fellow Dr. Katie J. Wells Testifies before the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections

Here’s How Long It Will Take for AI to Reach Its Potential

“What is being sold is this idea of productivity and efficiency,” says Kate Brennan, associate director of the AI Now Institute, an AI-policy research center, “and what that means for the people doing the actual work is rarely part of the conversation.”

Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI

Some experts, however, suggested that there could be more hype behind Anthropic’s Mythos announcement than substance, especially given the vagueness with which the company described some of Mythos’s capabilities. Heidy Khlaaf, the chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, called the announcement of Mythos “a marketing post”.

Series: What Europe’s AI Market Actually Looks Like

In this 3-part mini series, AI Now's Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari explore Europe's AI market, how it's entangled with US systems and companies, and where it's headed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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."

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. 

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.

‘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.

‘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.

‘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.