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COP31 pledge on AI lacks climate targets, critics say
Ahead of COP31, a proposed artificial intelligence pledge lacks any concrete climate targets and allows signatories to determine what steps they take. "We can't trust them to grade their own homework," says AI Now's Alli Finn.
Politico Pro
Oct 27, 2026
What Should the Rules for A.I. Companies Actually Be? We Asked the Experts.
AI Now's Senior Director Kate Brennan joined a roundtable discussion with AI experts and leaders, pushing the conversation away from abstract risk and toward the very real harms caused by AI companies willing to gamble with our lives and our economy.
The New York Times
Oct 26, 2026
The $5 Trillion AI Bet You’re Already Paying For
Co-executive director Amba Kak joins Agents of Tech to unpack the consolidation of power among tech monopolies, the slow bailout of AI companies that the public is footing, regulation for the industry, and more.
Agents of Tech
Oct 15, 2026
How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
AI Now's Senior Research Scientist, Boyan Milanov, points out how AI doomerism isn't based on any scientific work and that calls for regulation from within the industry are, in reality, attempts by AI companies to set their own standards.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Sep 30, 2026
White House Releases Taxpayer-Funded Midterm Ads
In the wake of NVIDIA's announcement of a new agent safety platform, AI Now's Aya Ibrahim joins "Balance of Power" to warn against "one-size-fits-all" security steps.
Bloomberg
Sep 28, 2026
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