“We argue that this is simply a cover for these companies to concentrate even more power and funding,” says Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, a research center focused on the societal consequences of AI. Presenting themselves as protagonists of a quasi-civilizational crusade protects tech companies from “regulatory friction,” branding any call for accountability as “a detriment to national interests.” And it allows them to position themselves “not only as too big, but also as too strategically important to fail,” reads a recent AI Now Institute report.
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