Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate
In an op-ed, AI Now's Chief AI Scientist Heidy Khlaaf writes: From aviation to banking, high-risk industries are subject to independent oversight and meaningful penalties. AI companies should be no exception.
Nature
Sep 22, 2026
Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype
“AI’s low reliability and accuracy rates in critical environments with life-or-death consequences” are of much greater concern to [AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf] than are threats of the technology wiping out humanity, which she calls “fear-mongering”.
Nature
Sep 22, 2026
Is this how the world ends? Extinction scenarios are taking over the AI debate.
Policymakers have a track record of being deferential when dealing with the tech sector, says AI Now's Aya Ibrahim. “When it comes to tech issues, there’s just this culture of learned helplessness from the same policymakers that sit on energy and commerce [committees] and oversee the FDA and prescription drugs,” topics where they don’t question their right to govern.
The Washington Post
Sep 21, 2026
What’s really motivating these AI apocalypse stories?
"Nobody is helped if we have an unregulated sector that's engaged in the race to the bottom. That's what we're seeing right here and now," says AI Now's Sarah Myers West on The Listening Post show.
Al Jazeera
Sep 19, 2026
Hugging Face Hack Shows Humans Can Keep AI In Check
Weeks after the OpenAI hack, AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf affirms that "ordinary security engineering would have stopped this well short of reaching Hugging Face’s data."
Bloomberg
Sep 18, 2026
How Existential Fears Are Shaping the Debate Over AI
As panic about AI's capabilities turns to regulating these companies, AI Now's Sarah Myers West argues for clarity, for breaking down what the actual risks are in order to properly mitigate them.
Bloomberg
Sep 17, 2026
Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?
“Scientific claims require falsifiability precisely to avoid the nature of religious arguments,” said Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute and a former OpenAI safety engineer. “You need to be able to prove or disprove them.”
CNN Business
Sep 17, 2026
Companies Developing AI Have Rendered Process ‘More And More Opaque’: AI Expert
Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of AI Now, joined Maggie McGrath to talk about whether agentic supreme intelligence is possible, the responsibility companies have in developing AI tools, and what politicians need to do to get up to speed on this fast-moving technology.
Forbes
Sep 16, 2026
Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks
In response to alarming claims and essays warning about AI safety, AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf pushes for evidence and concrete examples that can verify these claims.
The Guardian
Sep 15, 2026
Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through
With doomsday warnings dominating headlines, AI Now's co-executive director Amba Kak says that this has allowed for AI companies to position themselves as the only ones capable of solving the problems that they themselves have created.
The Guardian
Sep 15, 2026
Trump’s opposition to AI rules undercuts industry’s calls for a slowdown
Recent warnings and news about AI safety point to the dire need for government regulation of the industry. "We need a structure that doesn't rely on this industry's permission to do its job," urges AI Now's co-executive director Amba Kak.
CNBC News
Sep 15, 2026
Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
While AI company executives warn about the threat their technology poses, they are cutting investment in baseline security protocols, says AI Now's Sarah Myers West.
The Guardian
Sep 15, 2026
Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
The whirlwind of news around AI safety and regulation has opened up a "really important policy opportunity and a policy window," says AI Now's co-executive director Amba Kak.
The Guardian
Sep 15, 2026
‘Silent Cold War’: Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US–China frontier
Calls by technology leaders to slow AI’s development raise questions about their ability and willingness to control the technology, according to Aya Ibrahim, Senior Economic and National Security Fellow at the AI Now Institute.
Al Jazeera
Sep 14, 2026
How Europe Can Escape a Captured AI Ecosystem
In the final piece of their series, AI Now's Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari offer four recommendations that can help guide the thinking and policymaking for the trajectory of AI in Europe.
Tech Policy Press
Sep 14, 2026
AI race with China risks ‘a race to the bottom’, expert warns
Aya Ibrahim, Senior Economic and National Security Fellow, told Al Jazeera that messages from world leaders raise doubts about how they intend to use AI.
Al Jazeera
Sep 13, 2026
AI Governance Reaches Crisis Point Ahead of Trump-Xi Summit
Amba Kak joins a panel at the Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies to discuss the state and need for AI governance right now.
Tech Policy Press
Sep 13, 2026
Escaping the AI safety nightmare: What can governments do?
Relying on the AI industry to regulate itself and ensure alignment will “never be reliable enough to replace proper safety,” said Boyan Milanov, senior research scientist at the AI Now Institute.
Politico
Sep 11, 2026
