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AI Now Associate Director Kate Brennan Testifies at the New York City Council Committee on Technology Hearing on the MyCity Portal
Oct 1, 2024
1: The Food and Drug Administration
Aug 1, 2024
0: Why an Independent Agency? And why the FDA?
Aug 1, 2024
The Fight to Reclaim Technical Expertise Amid the Fall of Chevron Deference
Aug 1, 2024
Appendix 1: How AI Is Regulated Today
Aug 1, 2024
Appendix 3: Comparison of FDA Mechanisms and AI Regulatory Proposals
Aug 1, 2024
Appendix 2: How Does the FDA Work?
Aug 1, 2024
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Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era
The moratorium fight may have signaled a bigger political shift. “In the last few months, we’ve seen a much broader and more diverse coalition form in support of AI regulation generally,” says Amba Kak, co–executive director of the AI Now Institute. After years of relative inaction, politicians are getting concerned about the risks of unregulated artificial intelligence.
MIT Technology Review
Jul 9, 2025
What Open AI Doesn’t Want You to Know
AI companies are spending millions to get the laws they want. They're not trying to cure cancer, or save America. These companies want to make $100 billion overnight, and they're willing to sponsor dangerous laws to make it happen.
More Perfect Union
Jul 2, 2025
Senators Came to Their Senses on AI Regulation Ban
“If there’s one lesson from the last decade of social media,” Kak added, “it’s that it’s difficult, maybe even impossible, to catch up with this tech sector once business models and practices have already been entrenched.”
Bloomberg
Jul 1, 2025
The GOP bill that would unleash AI is getting closer to passing. AI Now’s Amba Kak says the plan keeps getting worse.
A wide swath of groups and lawmakers from across the political spectrum have raised alarms about the proposal to ban state-level regulations of AI for the next five years.
Hard Reset
Jul 1, 2025
California seeks new guardrails on automated AI systems
In California, the state Senate has voted in favor of a so-called AI Bill of Rights, which would establish new guardrails around automated decision systems (ADS). To learn more about them, Marketplace’s Nova Safo spoke with Kate Brennan, associate director of the think tank AI Now Institute.
Marketplace
Jun 23, 2025
‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ could block AI regulations for 10 years, leaving its harms unchecked
"I can imagine that for lawmakers, Republican or Democrat, whose districts rely on BEAD funding for broadband access to their rural communities, it's really a strange bargain," Kak said.
PolitiFact
Jun 17, 2025
The Storm Clouds Looming Past the State Moratorium: Weak Regulation is as Bad as None
We must remain vigilant against a scenario that’s as harmful as no regulation itself: weak regulation that serves to legitimize the AI industry’s behavior and continue business as usual. A federal law that imposes baseline transparency disclosures and then restricts states’ ability to impose additional—or stricter—requirements could place us on a dangerous trajectory of inaction.
Tech Policy Press
Jun 11, 2025
Big AI isn’t just lobbying Washington—it’s joining it
On Tuesday, the AI Now Institute, a research and advocacy nonprofit that studies the social implications of AI, released a report that accused AI companies of “pushing out shiny objects to detract from the business reality while they desperately try to derisk their portfolios through government subsidies and steady public-sector (often carceral or military) contracts.” The organization says the public needs “to reckon with the ways in which today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us.”
Fortune
Jun 6, 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
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
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