Computational Power and AI

Jai Vipra & Sarah Myers West

Sep 27, 2023

Our Research Areas

Data Minimization

Data minimization policies – bright line rules that prohibit excessive or harmful data collection and use – are a tool for AI accountability.

Algorithmic Accountability

An emerging AI Accountability template runs the risk of entrenching power within the tech industry, and undercuts structural solutions.

Antitrust

Structural reforms are key to fixing the harms caused by Big Tech.

Large-Scale AI Models

Industry narratives attempt to stave off regulation, but large-scale AI needs more scrutiny, not less.

Privacy & Competition

Regulating Big Tech’s data advantage.

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Our Publications

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Our latest publications connect a set of themes that all point to the same challenge: confronting tech power.

AI Now Joins Civil Society Groups In Statement Calling For Regulation To Protect the Public

AI Now Institute, et al

Nov 1, 2023

Advancing Racial Equity Through Technology Policy

Julia Rhodes Davis, Eliza McCullough, Sarah Treuhaft, and Rachel Gichinga

Sep 28, 2023

Zero Trust AI Governance

Accountable Tech, AI Now Institute, EPIC

Aug 10, 2023

Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part II: Labor Organizing and Environmental Justice in Tech, Past and Present

Tamara Kneese

Aug 3, 2023

Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part I: AI Supply Chains and Workflows

Tamara Kneese

Aug 2, 2023

General Purpose AI Poses Serious Risks, Should Not Be Excluded From the EU’s AI Act | Policy Brief

AI Now Institute

Amba Kak

Sarah Myers West

Apr 13, 2023

Algorithmic Accountability for the Public Sector – Report

AI Now Institute, Ada Lovelace Institute and Open Government Partnership

Aug 17, 2021

Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Open Questions

AI Now Institute

Amba Kak

Sep 1, 2020

Confronting Black Boxes: A Shadow Report of the New York City Automated Decision System Task Force

AI Now Institute

Rashida Richardson

Dec 4, 2019

Latest Series

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AI Now Salon Series

AI Now is announcing its inaugural salon series this spring: join us for a set of intimate conversations with bold thinkers on some of the most pressing issues of the moment. More details coming soon!

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China in Global Tech Discourse

An essay series exploring the myths, realities, actors, and incentives underpinning dominant China tech and AI narratives.

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A New AI Lexicon

In January 2021, we launched ‘A New AI Lexicon:’ a call for contributions to generate alternate narratives, positionalities, and understandings to the better known and widely circulated ways of talking about AI.