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Speaking at Columbia LPE with Amba Kak today about the political economy of AI - and excited to preview some of our thinking for the 2025 @ainowinstitute report: law.columbia.edu/events/lpe-pol…

This afternoon I’ll be in DC giving the keynote at American Association of University Professors’s conference and listening to an inspiring crew of educators and federal workers. My message: we need to make AI a fight about power, not progress: asc.upenn.edu/news-events/ev…

Five hours after our AI research story published — we reached out to all the AI labs 1-2 weeks beforehand — OpenAI pledged it would release safety test results more often & launched a webpage showing how its models score on tests for harmful content. cnbc.com/2025/05/14/met…

June 2!! Come join us in NYC to celebrate Karen Hao’s long-awaited book on OpenAI, and catch a sneak preview of our next report. Space is limited so please RSVP!

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

City officials have historically been the first to enact bright line rules protecting their constituents from AI harms - look to the facial recognition bans as one example. I’m excited to talk about more we can do at this panel next week - RSVP below!

📣 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.

On June 2 we’re excited to host two of the sharpest thinkers on tech power: Columbia law professor and former FTC Chair Lina Khan will join @_karenhao for a conversation about AI at an event to celebrate the launch of Karen’s new book. Join the waitlist: forms.gle/U9WegXAb5zAwi6…

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...

This was an amazing night - such a rich and wide-ranging conversation with two exceptionally smart thinkers on AI. Thanks to all that attended!!

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

This report is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the state of AI in 2025. It explains how AI is entrenching power for big tech + the oligarch class, speeding deregulation, dislodging human expertise and threatening workers—and how there's still time to refuse all that.

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:

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…

Wild. Big Tech snuck language into BBB that holds American jobs hostage in exchange for a Get Out of Jail free card for any harms their AI technologies cause.

Many AI firms have coasted on the assurance they can experiment in the wild without worrying much about compliance with existing law - now we all agree a 10 year ban would be a wildly irresponsible move, can we get down to business (for real this time)?

Watch Sarah Myers West Brian Merchant ruchowdh.bsky.social break it down in this excellent primer by More Perfect Union on the mythologies that sustain Big Tech AI power; and how we might pull the rug from under them!

Was happy to sit for this a+ short doc on Silicon Valley's efforts to concentrate power and exempt its AI products from regulation, along with the great Sarah Myers West, ruchowdh.bsky.social, and others