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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
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
How Europe Can Escape a Captured AI Ecosystem
In the final piece of their series, AI Now's Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari offer four recommendations that can help guide the thinking and policymaking for the trajectory of AI in Europe.
Tech Policy Press
Sep 14, 2026
Iran sanctions: How to make an outcast out of a pariah
“We learned very quickly we cannot afford that lever being pulled,” said Aya Ibrahim, the former Biden official who is now a senior fellow at the AI Now Institute and The Century Foundation.
CNN Business
Aug 26, 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
How AI Keeps Europe Hooked on US Cloud
AI Now's Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari argue why European AI Sovereignty is intricately connected to its existing dependence on three US cloud providers: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
Tech Policy Press
Jun 29, 2026
New Study Sparks Questions Over Uber and Lyft’s Ride Pricing
A new Consumer Reports investigation finds Uber and Lyft customers are often given different fares when they book the same rides at the same time. While Uber and Lyft have long used surge pricing, the new findings are raising questions about whether the apps are using personalized or surveillance pricing based on customers’ personal data. NBC’s Vicky Nguyen reports for TODAY.
TODAY Show
Jun 16, 2026
Europe’s AI Sovereignty Problem Runs Far Deeper Than Frontier Access
AI Now's Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari make the case that Europe’s AI market is deeply entangled with the ecosystems of dominant US players, in ways that boosting both supply and demand alone cannot disentangle.
Tech Policy Press
Jun 15, 2026
Anthropic says the world should have option to ‘pause’ on AI
Some experts, however, suggested that there could be more hype behind Anthropic’s Mythos announcement than substance, especially given the vagueness with which the company described some of Mythos’s capabilities. Heidy Khlaaf, the chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, called the announcement of Mythos “a marketing post”.
The Guardian
Jun 5, 2026
Series: What Europe’s AI Market Actually Looks Like
In this 3-part mini series, AI Now's Frederike Kaltheuner and Leevi Saari explore Europe's AI market, how it's entangled with US systems and companies, and where it's headed.
Tech Policy Press
Jun 4, 2026
Europe’s AI translation industry told it risks reputation by partnering with US firms
Leevi Saari, AI Now's EU Policy Fellow, discusses the pull of the AI industry in the U.S., and how it impacts companies and economies in Europe.
The Guardian
May 7, 2026
‘Too powerful for the public’: inside Anthropic’s bid to win the AI publicity war
“Mythos is a strategic announcement to show that they’re open for business,” said Dr. Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at AI Now, saying Anthropic’s release limitation prevented independent experts from evaluating the company’s claims.
The Guardian
Apr 12, 2026
Why Anthropic won’t release its new Claude Mythos AI model to the public
Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, a U.S.-based research institute, said Anthropic’s detailed blog post explaining the new vulnerabilities left out many key details needed to verify its claims.
NBC News
Apr 8, 2026
You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Is an artificial-intelligence bubble about to pop? The question of whether we’re in for a replay of the 2008 housing collapse—complete with bailouts at taxpayers’ expense—has saturated the news cycle. For every day that passes without disaster, AI companies can more persuasively insist that no such market correction is coming. But the federal government is already bailing out the AI industry with regulatory changes and public funds that will protect companies in the event of a private sector pullback.
The Wall Street Journal
Nov 13, 2025
What Are the Implications if the AI Boom Turns to Bust?
This episode considers whether today’s massive AI investment boom reflects real economic fundamentals or an unsustainable bubble, and how a potential crash could reshape AI policy, public sentiment, and narratives about the future that are embraced and advanced not only by Silicon Valley billionaires, but also by politicians and governments.
Tech Policy Press
Nov 12, 2025
The fusing of AI firms and the state is leading to a dangerous concentration of power
With all of this in mind, Hard Reset spoke with researcher Sarah West, the co-executive director of a think tank advocating for an AI that benefits the public interest, not just a select few. We discuss this consolidation of power among a few AI players—and how the government is actually hindering the development of healthier competition and consumer-friendly AI products, while flirting with financial disaster.
Hard Reset
Oct 31, 2025
The Rise and Fall of Nvidia’s Geopolitical Strategy
China’s Cyberspace Administration last month banned companies from purchasing Nvidia’s H20 chips, much to the chagrin of its CEO Jensen Huang. This followed a train wreck of events that unfolded over the summer.
Tech Policy Press
Oct 31, 2025
Decision in US vs. Google Gets it Wrong on Generative AI
Gesturing towards the importance of generative AI in the search engine market then dismissing its actual effects is a dangerous precedent. It is true that tech markets are being shaped by generative AI. But in this case the court failed to accurately examine the broader AI market and the effects of consolidated power.
Tech Policy Press
Sep 11, 2025