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NEWS: As AI’s energy demands surge, tech leaders are looking to nuclear energy to fuel its power-hungry AI usage. We’re launching a stream of work focused on energy infrastructure, safety, and the risks of fast-tracking oversight in the name of AI. shorturl.at/HSwsn

📣 The rushed integration of AI into everything is a major threat to privacy, as we've been saying. Microsoft Recall is a great (not great!) example of exactly why--it screenshots everything on your desktop, to give AI the data to tell you...what you were doing on desktop.

"A moratorium on AI-related state laws, at a time when there are minimal federal laws in place, would instead set the clock back and it would freeze it there.” Amba Kak of AI Now Institute on a dangerous House R proposal to block states from regulating AI for 10 years.

In testimony yesterday before the Energy and Commerce Committee, Amba Kak spelled out what we have to lose: this moratorium on state AI laws flies in the face of common sense – it sets back the clock and freezes it there.

I’m thrilled to share the stage with Lina Khan next week to discuss EMPIRE OF AI in New York!!

🚨Polis vetoes another bill that would help American families! In recent weeks, the Gov has 1) come out in support of AI state preemption provision 2) vetoed a social media bill that would protect kids 3) vetoed the worker protection act. Clear message who he is working for.

NEW REPORT: Artificial Power, our 2025 Landscape Report, is out. Today’s AI isn’t just being used by us, it’s being used on us. We urgently need to reclaim public power over the future trajectory of AI. Another path is possible. Read the report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

if you’ve been looking for an all-in-one resource to explain why it’s troubling for tech companies to push AI into every corner of our social, political, and economic lives, you might love our latest report from AI Now Institute called Artificial Power: ainowinstitute.org/publications/r…

After a hiatus, the AI Now Landscape Report is back: Artificial Power examines the fallout from the recent AI hype cycle and maps out another path available to us - one that puts the public, not profits, at the center. Read more here: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

Artificial Power, AI Now’s 2025 Landscape Report, examines the fallout of the ‘AI boom,’ and how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies, and the tech oligarchs that run them, power that goes far beyond their deep pockets. Read it: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

Our 2025 report exposes how unaccountable AI power is reshaping the social, economic, and political fabric of our lives, and how workers, organizers, and policymakers can push back. Covered in WIRED by Louise Matsakis: wired.com/story/report-a…

"Silicon Valley's scale-at-all-costs approach to AI development … is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms," says technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book "Empire of AI."

We spoke with Louise Matsakis WIRED this week about AI Now’s latest report, which spotlights the growing movement to ensure the conversation about AI isn’t abstracted into oblivion: it’s connected to the direct effects of this technology on people’s lives and livelihoods. Read more:

This has always been true, but it’s become more urgent to act from/with this clarity now.

At our launch event for Karen Hao's new book, Empire of AI, Lina Khan spoke on the ramifications of Big Tech’s consolidated control over AI. Watch the full recording: ainowinstitute.org/news/announcem…

It’s an all hands on deck moment for taking on corporate abuse. Excited to join Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Zephyr Teachout to discuss how local government can join the fight.

Instead of debating how “good” technologies like ChatGPT are, we should be asking whether the AI industry’s unaccountable power is good for society. Read our 2025 Landscape Report: ainowinstitute.org/2025-landscape

A fight lies ahead to stop the AI law moratorium and defend states’ rights to protect their people. Unconventional alliances may form, but we can’t waver on the long game. The public must set the terms for AI accountability. Read our warning in TPP: shorturl.at/1pS1Q