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Down With the AI Overlords—With Sarah Myers West
AI Now's Sarah Myers West joins the Fighting Fascism podcast to discuss how AI is concentrating power among a handful of oligarchs—and how its future could be made more democratic.
The Nation
May 12, 2026
Musk v Altman and the ‘manifest destiny’ of AI
Billionaire tech CEOs like to claim that they're the only ones we can trust to be in charge of AI and its impacts on the world. “It reminds me of manifest-destiny language,” said Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of AI Now,
Reuters
May 6, 2026
The Great AI Grift
Tech leaders want you to believe that AI is the key to a new golden age. The reality looks more like a bold, government-backed heist.
The Nation
Apr 8, 2026
Data Centers Are the Enemy We’ve All Been Waiting For
“So many people come to this issue because all of a sudden, overnight, there is a data center proposal or a facility going up in their community often with very little notice, without their knowledge, without any meaningful transparency or public decision-making,” says Alli Finn of AI Now Institute.
The New Republic
Feb 17, 2026
Trump’s Big, Beautiful L.L.M.
Dr. Sarah Myers West, the co-executive director of the independent research institute AI Now, told me that the plan “reads like the wish list for Silicon Valley’s big A.I. firms.” OpenAI didn’t return a request for comment on the plan, but the company seems suitably pleased with the result—at least according to a LinkedIn post from chief policy officer Chris Lehane, the former Democratic consultant turned tech regulatory rainmaker, declaring that Trump’s A.I. plan will “fuel growth, opportunity, and innovation for everyone, everywhere.”
Puck News
Jul 24, 2025
White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation
"The White House AI Action Plan is written by Big Tech interests invested in advancing AI that's used on us, not by us," said Sarah Myers West and Amba Kak, co-executive directors of the AI Now Institute, which helped organize the statement.
Ars Technica
Jul 24, 2025
Considering Trump’s AI Plan and the Future It Portends
Sarah Myers West: "We and a whole group of other organizations took a look at what the tea leaves were telling us about what to expect here and co-convened a group around an alternative plan because honestly, this is not the only path available to us on AI."
Tech Policy Press
Jul 24, 2025
Trump AI plan rips the brakes out of the car and gives Big Tech exactly what it wanted
Kate Brennan, associate director of the AI Now Institute, called the whole plan a gift for the big tech companies that will build these datacenters. "Big Tech got exactly what it wanted in this action plan, and we're poised to see an acceleration that is built on deregulatory principles and very little consideration for the public at large," she warned.
The Register
Jul 24, 2025
Trump’s AI plan: Pull back restraints on tech
A coalition of privacy advocates, labor unions and other organizations are calling for a People’s Action Plan to counter the Trump administration’s proposals. Its signatories include the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Writers Guild of America East and research institute the AI Now Institute.
CNN
Jul 24, 2025
Trump unveils AI plan that aims to clamp down on regulations and ‘bias’
"The White House AI Action plan was written by and for tech billionaires, and will not serve the interests of the broader public," said Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute.
BBC
Jul 23, 2025
Trump’s ‘AI Action Plan’ to mix tech industry wishlist with culture war attacks on ‘woke AI’
Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which helped lead the effort, said the coalition expects Trump’s plan to come “straight from Big Tech’s mouth.”
Fortune
Jul 23, 2025
Trump’s ‘Artificial Intelligence Action Plan’ is already stirring debate
“The rollout of the technology is acting in ways that push down wages, that devalue our work, that are harming our environment and affecting community health,” said Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which helped organize the statement. “The idea that the public should have a voice in whether and under what conditions this technology gets used is really at the center of this effort.”
Washington Post
Jul 22, 2025
Facebook blocked my family. We have no idea why.
Big Tech’s power "is contingent on a public that is submissive [and] passive,” as Amba Kak says in Brian Bergstein’s Boston Globe piece. But that's changing. The public is reasserting power and demanding a say in our technological future.
Boston Globe
Jul 9, 2025
