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.
Responsible Bytes Podcast
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.
CNBC
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.
Democracy Now!
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.
CNN Business
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.
Bloomberg
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.
Dreaming Against the Machine
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.
Governing
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.
Business Insider
Aug 16, 2026
“Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain”: Militaries Rely on Mistake-Prone AI in Ukraine, Gaza & Iran
Heidy Khlaaf, AI Now's Chief AI Scientist, joins Democracy Now to discuss the report "Anatomy of a Kill Chain" and how AI algorithms lead to faulty decision-making and, ultimately, civilian casualties.
Democracy Now!
Aug 13, 2026
The New, Secret White House AI Rulebook
The Trump Administration's new framework for reviewing security risks in AI models isn’t public, and neither are the government’s evaluations. So, argues Aya Ibrahim, Senior Economic and National Security Fellow at AI Now Institute, the public “can’t scrutinize the quality or the relevance of the benchmarks that these companies are meeting or not."
The Dispatch
Aug 7, 2026
Stop Saying There’s a Nursing Shortage
Yet rather than add nurses, many hospitals are paring back, sometimes turning to apps where they can hire nurses as gig workers. Such apps often allow hospitals to avoid paying for benefits for these workers, says Katie Wells, a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute, which has studied gig apps for nursing. “Lean staffing has just become the norm."
TIME
Aug 7, 2026
20% of workers say they use AI for tasks that used to be given to colleagues, poll finds
“In the discourse around AI and disruption, it feels like so much of the conversation is framed as ‘this is what’s going to happen to workers,’ and less of how workers themselves are thinking of their own precarity," says Aya Ibrahim, senior economic and national security fellow at AI Now.
NBC News
Aug 6, 2026
How to fight a data center
All of that might make it feel like opposing AI infrastructure is impossible, but that's not how Aya Ibrahim, senior economic and security fellow at AI Now sees it. "It feels impossible until it's not, and we have no choice but to figure this out."
Engadget
Jul 31, 2026
Can the US regulate AI without slowing innovation?
AI Now Institute Co-Executive Director Sarah Myers West joins The Excerpt to discuss the risks consumers already face, the limits of the current approach, who may be held responsible when AI causes harm and what meaningful U.S. oversight could look like.
USA Today's The Excerpt
Jul 27, 2026
A rogue OpenAI model hacked a startup, and some experts worry that’s just the start
Heidy Khlaaf, a chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, said she remains skeptical about the seriousness of the hack because of a lack of detailed information from both companies about their security posture. She said the situation was rooted in giving the AI “a task with poor parameters,” versus the AI acting without human control.
NBC News
Jul 24, 2026
How OpenAI Lost Control of an AI Model—and What Needs to Change
“Sandboxes are actually notoriously insecure,” says Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at AI Now Institute, and a former safety systems engineer contractor at OpenAI. The fact that the models were permitted to connect to a service for downloading packages meant the environment was not truly sealed off, she adds.
TIME
Jul 24, 2026
Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It
Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls "Friendly Fire."
The Hacker News
Jul 9, 2026
How AI Keeps Europe Hooked on US Cloud
AI Now's Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari argue why European AI Sovereignty is intricately connected to its existing dependence on three US cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Tech Policy Press
Jun 29, 2026
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