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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
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
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
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
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
‘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
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
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
AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal
Trusting companies to self-report the risks of their own products constitutes both a conflict of interest and a “subversion of democratic processes when AI labs are allowed to take over the arbitration of risk determinations with life-or-death consequences," says AI Now's Chief AI Scientist Heidy Khlaaf.
The Intercept
Sep 8, 2026
After OpenAI’s Bots Went Rogue, Watchdogs Were Kept on a Short Leash
To Heidy Khlaaf, who left OpenAI in 2021 and now serves as chief scientist at the AI Now Institute, a policy research nonprofit, the issue is also that A.I. companies often ignore established safety and security protocols from other industries.
The New York Times
Sep 3, 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
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
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
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