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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
AI Now's Senior Research Scientist, Boyan Milanov, points out how AI doomerism isn't based on any scientific work and that calls for regulation from within the industry are, in reality, attempts by AI companies to set their own standards.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Sep 30, 2026
White House Releases Taxpayer-Funded Midterm Ads
In the wake of NVIDIA's announcement of a new agent safety platform, AI Now's Aya Ibrahim joins "Balance of Power" to warn against "one-size-fits-all" security steps.
Bloomberg
Sep 28, 2026
AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care
Despite concerns and warnings about the harms of their technology, AI companies are still pushing for and promoting their products as instrumental in national infrastructure. AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf says that acknowledging these issues wouldn't be profitable for AI companies.
The Intercept
Sep 28, 2026
Why AI companies can’t be trusted to self-regulate
In an op-ed, AI Now's Chief AI Scientist Heidy Khlaaf writes: From aviation to banking, high-risk industries are subject to independent oversight and meaningful penalties. AI companies should be no exception.
Nature
Sep 22, 2026
Will AI really kill us all? The science behind the hype
“AI’s low reliability and accuracy rates in critical environments with life-or-death consequences” are of much greater concern to [AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf] than are threats of the technology wiping out humanity, which she calls “fear-mongering”.
Nature
Sep 22, 2026
Hugging Face Hack Shows Humans Can Keep AI In Check
Weeks after the OpenAI hack, AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf affirms that "ordinary security engineering would have stopped this well short of reaching Hugging Face’s data."
Bloomberg
Sep 18, 2026
How Existential Fears Are Shaping the Debate Over AI
As panic about AI's capabilities turns to regulating these companies, AI Now's Sarah Myers West argues for clarity, for breaking down what the actual risks are in order to properly mitigate them.
Bloomberg
Sep 17, 2026
Will AI really kill everyone? How, exactly?
“Scientific claims require falsifiability precisely to avoid the nature of religious arguments,” said Heidy Khlaaf, chief AI scientist at the AI Now Institute and a former OpenAI safety engineer. “You need to be able to prove or disprove them.”
CNN Business
Sep 17, 2026
Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks
In response to alarming claims and essays warning about AI safety, AI Now's Heidy Khlaaf pushes for evidence and concrete examples that can verify these claims.
The Guardian
Sep 15, 2026
Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through
With doomsday warnings dominating headlines, AI Now's co-executive director Amba Kak says that this has allowed for AI companies to position themselves as the only ones capable of solving the problems that they themselves have created.
The Guardian
Sep 15, 2026
Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
While AI company executives warn about the threat their technology poses, they are cutting investment in baseline security protocols, says AI Now's Sarah Myers West.
The Guardian
Sep 15, 2026
Trump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
The whirlwind of news around AI safety and regulation has opened up a "really important policy opportunity and a policy window," says AI Now's co-executive director Amba Kak.
The Guardian
Sep 15, 2026
Escaping the AI safety nightmare: What can governments do?
Relying on the AI industry to regulate itself and ensure alignment will “never be reliable enough to replace proper safety,” said Boyan Milanov, senior research scientist at the AI Now Institute.
Politico
Sep 11, 2026
AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal
Trusting companies to self-report the risks of their own products constitutes both a conflict of interest and a “subversion of democratic processes when AI labs are allowed to take over the arbitration of risk determinations with life-or-death consequences," says AI Now's Chief AI Scientist Heidy Khlaaf.
The Intercept
Sep 8, 2026
What Really Happened When OpenAI Bots Escaped a Cybersecurity Test?
When hundreds of OpenAI agents broke out of their test environment and infiltrated the AI platform Hugging Face, headlines warned that the machines had gone rogue. But Heidy Khlaaf says this is the wrong story and a distraction from the real problem.
Amanpour and Company
Sep 3, 2026
After OpenAI’s Bots Went Rogue, Watchdogs Were Kept on a Short Leash
To Heidy Khlaaf, who left OpenAI in 2021 and now serves as chief scientist at the AI Now Institute, a policy research nonprofit, the issue is also that A.I. companies often ignore established safety and security protocols from other industries.
The New York Times
Sep 3, 2026
Why Human Control Isn’t Enough in Military AI with Heidy Khlaaf
In this episode of Responsible Bytes, Dr. Zena Assaad speaks with Heidy Khlaaf about why military AI systems are far less reliable than their marketing suggests, especially in safety-critical and combat settings.
Responsible Bytes Podcast
Sep 2, 2026
As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak
Amba Kak, the co-executive director of AI Now Institute, joins Democracy Now for a wide-ranging discussion on tech policy, regulation, and accountability.
Democracy Now!
Aug 27, 2026