Fearing AI will take their jobs, California workers plan a long battle against tech
“Labor has been at the forefront of rebalancing of power and asserting that the public has a say in determining how and under what conditions this tech is used."
CalMatters
Feb 21, 2025
The Rush to A.I. Threatens National Security
"In the quest for supremacy in a purported technological arms race, it would be unwise to overlook the risks that A.I.’s current reliance on sensitive data poses to national security or to ignore its core technical vulnerabilities."
The New York Times
Feb 21, 2025
Europe between DeepSeek and Trump
DeepSeek’s recent breakthrough has sent shockwaves around the world. Does a more volatile AI market mean Europe now has a fleeting chance to compete?
IPS Journal
Feb 21, 2025
Energy is AI’s barrier to entry. David Sacks knows it.
“There’s not enough renewable energy right now, and we could see big tech companies abandon their climate commitments,” Brennan said. “We’re seeing fossil fuel plants stay online, which means the immediate and tangible harms of a rapid tech expansion are hitting communities and people.”
Politico
Feb 21, 2025
US and UK refuse to sign summit declaration on AI
Frederike Kaltheuner, senior EU and global governance lead at the AI Now Institute, an AI research body, added that following the launch of DeepSeek, Europeans had fleetingly thought they had a chance to compete in AI.
Financial Times
Feb 21, 2025
As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies
“This is the first confirmation we have gotten that commercial AI models are directly being used in warfare,” said Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute and former senior safety engineer at OpenAI. “The implications are enormous for the role of tech in enabling this type of unethical and unlawful warfare going forward.”
Associated Press
Feb 21, 2025
Reactions to the Bipartisan US House AI Task Force Report
The Bipartisan House Task Force on AI released a 253-page report gesturing towards the many material harms of rapid AI adoption while providing few meaningful policy recommendations to address it.
Tech Policy Press
Dec 26, 2024
This is where the data to build AI comes from
And because Google is also developing its own AI models, its massive advantage also raises questions about how the company will make this data available for competitors, says Sarah Myers West, the co–executive director at the AI Now Institute
MIT Technology Review
Dec 26, 2024
What If Tech Execs Don’t Really Need All These Data Centers?
“They’ve gotten themselves into a business model that’s very cost-intensive up front, and very unproven in terms of what profits they’re going to have on the back-end or what the ultimate utility will be,” says Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of AINow and a former senior adviser on AI at the Federal Trade Commission.
New Republic
Dec 26, 2024
AI admin tools pose a threat to national security
Artificial intelligence is already being used on the battlefield. Accelerated adoption is in sight. This year, Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI all declared that their AI foundation models were available for use by US national security. AI warfare is controversial and widely criticised. But a more insidious set of AI use cases have already been quietly integrated into the US military.
Dec 24, 2024
What the European Commission’s focus on AI industrial policy means for Green and left-of-centre parties
Frederike Kaltheuner of AI Now shares her insights on the European Commission’s focus on AI industrial policy means for Green and left-of-centre parties.
Dec 24, 2024
How to Remedy Google’s Search Monopoly
AI Now Associate Director Kate Brennan discusses Google's antitrust case in conversation with Alissa Cooper, Cristina Caffarra. and David Dinielli.
Tech Policy Press
Dec 24, 2024
Meta says it’s making its Llama models available for US national security applications
According to a recent study from the nonprofit AI Now Institute, the AI deployed today for military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance poses dangers because it relies on personal data that can be exfiltrated and weaponized by adversaries.
TechCrunch
Dec 24, 2024
The Elephant in the Room in the Google Search Case: Generative AI
The elephant in the room is generative AI, which is rapidly transforming the search engine market landscape. Look no further than Google’s own generative AI chatbot Gemini, which provides users with an impossible-to-opt-out-of “AI Summary” at the top of Google’s own search results page.
Tech Policy Press
Dec 24, 2024
U.S. Military Makes First Confirmed OpenAI Purchase for War-Fighting Forces
“It is extremely alarming that they’re explicit in OpenAI tool use for ‘unified analytics for data processing’ to align with USAFRICOM’s mission objectives,” said Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, who has previously conducted safety evaluations for OpenAI.
The Intercept
Nov 15, 2024
