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Generative AI is transforming businesses everywhere. Big Tech will still be crowned the winner.
In April, researchers at the AI Now Institute published a report that said AI development had been "foundationally reliant" on the resources held and controlled by the giants.
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Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech
If we’re not careful, Microsoft, Amazon, and other large companies will leverage their position to set the policy agenda for AI, as they have in many other sectors.
MIT Tecnology Review
Dec 5, 2023
The AI Supply Chain: An Emerging Oligopoly?
The report was published ahead of a November 15 event hosted by the Open Markets Institute and the AI Now Institute Washington, DC.
Tech Policy Press
Nov 20, 2023
How Big Tech is co-opting the rising stars of artificial intelligence
“To build AI at any kind of meaningful scale, any developer is going to have core dependencies on resources that are largely concentrated in only a few firms,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director at the AI Now Institute, which researches the effects of AI on society. “There really isn’t a path out of it.”
The Washington Post
Oct 2, 2023
How Big Tech is co-opting the rising stars of artificial intelligence
“To build AI at any kind of meaningful scale, any developer is going to have core dependencies on resources that are largely concentrated in only a few firms,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director at the AI Now Institute, which researches the effects of AI on society. “There really isn’t a path out of it.”
The Washington Post
Sep 30, 2023
Amazon’s Partnership With Anthropic Shows Size Matters in the AI Industry
Vipra says that Anthropic, which prides itself on being particularly safety-conscious, will struggle to avoid being influenced by Amazon. “The announcement says it's all about safety—it's pitched as expanding access to safe AI products," she says. "But it really shows that productization has taken over.”
Time
Sep 25, 2023
AI regulation is taking shape, but startups are being left out
AI Now sounded the alarm on Big AI’s influence with a report it released in April. The organization warned that companies led the narrative around AI, overstating the importance of the technology to the future and influencing how people think about it. AI Now believes the conversation should be led by regulators and the public.
The Verge
Aug 8, 2023
The FTC’s biggest AI enforcement tool? Forcing companies to delete their algorithms
“It really gets to the core of what is a common practice in the tech industry to use wide swaths of data, not necessarily for the purpose under which the data was originally obtained,” said Sarah Myers West, managing director of AI Now and a former FTC adviser.
Cyberscoop
Jul 5, 2023
The Microsoft-Google AI war
“This technology does not have any of the complexity of human understanding, but it will affect us profoundly in the way that it’s rolled out into the world," Sarah Myers West says.
WBUR
Jun 6, 2023
The FTC’s biggest AI enforcement tool? Forcing companies to delete their algorithms
“It’s not OK to justify data collection just for the sake of product improvement when it’s a violation of privacy.”
CyberScoop
Jun 5, 2023
Sam Altman sells superintelligent sunshine as protestors call for AGI pause
People like Altman “position accountability right out into the future,” Sarah Myers West, managing director of the AI Now institute, told The Verge last week. Instead, says West, we should be talking about current known threats created by AI systems — from faulty predictive policing to racially biased facial recognition to the spread of misinformation.
The Verge
May 24, 2023
OpenAI is pursuing a new way to fight A.I. ‘hallucinations’
“It’s certainly welcome to see companies trying to tinker with the development of their systems to try and reduce these kinds of errors — I think what’s key is to interpret this as corporate research, in light of the many barriers that exist to deeper forms of accountability,” Sarah Myers West, managing director of the AI Now Institute, told CNBC.
CNBC
May 1, 2023
The rise of AI will only make Big Tech more powerful, researchers warn
"If we want to make any meaningful reform in the tech industry, we need to start by confronting the concentration of power," Sarah Myers West, managing director of AI Now, told Insider.
Business Insider
Apr 25, 2023
