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AI Now Senior Fellow Dr. Katie J. Wells Testifies before the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections
Jun 11, 2026
Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part II: Labor Organizing and Environmental Justice in Tech, Past and Present
Aug 3, 2023
Climate Justice and Labor Rights | Part I: AI Supply Chains and Workflows
Aug 2, 2023
Automated Firing & Algorithmic Management: Mounting a Resistance, with Veena Dubal, Zephyr Teachout and Zubin Soleimany | AI Now Salons
Jul 20, 2023
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Life Under the Algorithm
AI Now's Katie Wells co-authors this piece with Veena Dubal in the Fall 2026 Issue, exploring how algorithmic wages and prices are impacting and shaping our lives.
Dissent Magazine
Sep 8, 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
Stop Saying There’s a Nursing Shortage
Yet rather than add nurses, many hospitals are paring back, sometimes turning to apps where they can hire nurses as gig workers. Such apps often allow hospitals to avoid paying for benefits for these workers, says Katie Wells, a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute, which has studied gig apps for nursing. “Lean staffing has just become the norm."
TIME
Aug 7, 2026
20% of workers say they use AI for tasks that used to be given to colleagues, poll finds
“In the discourse around AI and disruption, it feels like so much of the conversation is framed as ‘this is what’s going to happen to workers,’ and less of how workers themselves are thinking of their own precarity," says Aya Ibrahim, senior economic and national security fellow at AI Now.
NBC News
Aug 6, 2026
Nurses Sound Alarm as ‘Uber for Nursing’ Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare
A new AI Now Institute report published April 21, 2026, warns that gig-work platforms marketed as "Uber for nursing" are aggressively lobbying states to rewrite healthcare staffing rules, a push that could leave nurses with less pay, fewer protections, and less control over their shifts, according to The Guardian.
nurse.org
Apr 23, 2026
‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds
Billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the “Uber for nursing” industry in an effort to expand gig work in the healthcare sector, according to a report published on Tuesday.
The Guardian
Apr 21, 2026
Is AI being shoved down your throat at work? Here’s how to fight back.
“There’s a whole range of different examples where unions have been able to really be on the front foot in setting the terms for how AI gets used — and whether it gets used at all,” Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, told me recently.
Vox
Nov 16, 2025
AI is costing jobs, but not always the way you think
Demand for AI is strong, but there’s no guarantee this gamble will pay off according to Sarah Myers West at the AI Now Institute.
Marketplace
Sep 9, 2025
How AI Adoption Is Sitting With Workers
There’s a danger to focusing primarily on CEO statements about AI adoption in the workplace, warns Brian Merchant, a journalist-in-residence at the AI Now Institute, an AI policy and research institute.
Charter
Aug 3, 2025
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
Jan 16, 2025
How Walmart, Delta, Chevron and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages
“No company is essentially in a position to make any sweeping assurances about the privacy and security of LLMs and these kinds of systems,” Kak said. “There is no one who can tell you with a straight face that these challenges are solved.”
CNBC
Feb 9, 2024
America Already Has an AI Underclass
She and others argue that tech companies intentionally downplay the importance of human feedback. Such obfuscation “sockets away some of the most unseemly elements of these technologies,” such as hateful content and misinformation that humans have to identify, Myers West told me—not to mention the conditions the people work under.
The Atlantic
Jul 26, 2023
Why use of AI is a major sticking point in the ongoing writers’ strike
“The WGA’s demands are a bellwether that workers don’t intend to stand for companies using AI to justify devaluation of their craft and expertise,” says Sarah Myers West at the AI Now Institute in New York. “The WGA is pointing out an important question – who is benefiting from the development and use of these systems, and who is harmed by them?”
New Scientist
May 15, 2023
Column: Your boss wants AI to replace you. The writers’ strike shows how to fight back
The AI Now Institute, a consortium of AI researchers and policy experts, recently published a report that concluded the AI industry is “foundationally reliant on resources that are owned and controlled by only a handful of big tech firms.” Its power is extremely concentrated in Silicon Valley, among giants such as Google and Meta, and that is where the economic benefits are all but certain to accrue.
LA Times
May 11, 2023