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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
Generative AI risks concentrating Big Tech’s power. Here’s how to stop it.
If regulators don’t act now, the generative AI boom will concentrate Big Tech’s power even further. That’s the central argument of a new report from research institute AI Now.
Apr 18, 2023
Opinion | Competition authorities need to move fast and break up AI
Unless regulators act, Big Tech’s dominance over the digital economy will be cemented
Financial Times
Apr 17, 2023
Google’s Bard AI chatbot has now been released to the public
“We should be concerned that the current hype around generative AI is prompting these companies to push their products into development really rapidly,” says Sarah Myers West at the AI Now Institute, a research centre in New York. “Now the companies are experimenting in the wild with them, versus really taking the time to mitigate potential risks prior to deployment.”
New Scientist
Mar 21, 2023
The Battle For AI Supremacy Got Super Intense This Week, Risks Be Damned
“There’s so much hysteria and hype around these faster and faster rollouts right now,” said Amba Kak, executive director of New York University’s AI Now Institute and a former senior adviser on AI to the Federal Trade Commission, “that I think we’re in danger of walking back a lot of the progress that has been made around responsible release practices and the need for regulatory oversight of these technologies.”
BuzzFeedNews
Mar 17, 2023
GPT-4: OpenAI says its AI has ‘human-level performance’ on tests
“If anything, OpenAI has provided even less detail with which to evaluate its new system,” says Sarah Myers West at the AI Now Institute, a research centre in New York City. “But what we’ve seen so far in the roll-out of generative AI is that these systems are prone to error […] so we should be wary of any claims that these issues are resolved.”
New Scientist
Mar 14, 2023
It’s way too late to stop TikTok
“These firms are optimizing for things that allow them to make money,” says West, “which is attention, your willingness to click on an advertisement, and your willingness to make a purchase.”
Fast Company
Mar 8, 2023