Sarah Myers West

We spoke with @lmatsakis @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:

I haven't found a single peer-reviewed paper covering AI-powered productivity increase that also takes into consideration the additional work required to review, correct, and oversee AI outputs. The "increased productivity" and "socially beneficial" claims have been at the core…

🚨415. It’s Time to Build… Radical Policy for AI (ft. Sarah Myers West, Amba Kak)🚨 Sarah and Amba from @AINowInstitute discuss their work laying out a progressive—and practical—policy agenda for AI, which centers real social need not corporate profit. soundcloud.com/thismachinekil…

AI Now Co-Executive Directors @sarahbmyers and @ambaonadventure sat down with @alixdunn at The Maybe to discuss the key takeaways from Artificial Power, @AINowInstitute's 2025 landscape report. Listen to the full podcast episode here: themaybe.org/podcast/making…

The WH is promising a ‘new frontier of scientific discovery’ even as it defunds our universities. The AI Action Plan serves only the bottom lines of a few oligarchs - that’s why we and 100+ orgs are uniting behind a People’s AI Action Plan. Read here: peoplesaiaction.com

Here is the full report. It’s a remarkable, eye opening read when you consider the physical, digital, and intellectual property being used by the company to support its attempts to chase Zuckerberg’s fantasies. /3 nytimes.com/2025/07/14/tec…

Today the OpenAI Nonprofit Commission released a report asserting OpenAI is ‘positioned to be a force of good in this Age of Intelligence’. The report also claims that AI Now was among the orgs participating in the listening process that led to this report. We did not.

Big Tech’s power "is contingent on a public that is submissive [and] passive,” as @ambaonadventure says in Brian Bergstein’s @BostonGlobe piece. But that's changing. The public is reasserting power and demanding a say in our technological future. shorturl.at/i8cf5

.@Kabakab sat down with @nova_safo at @Marketplace to speak about algorithmic decision systems’ impact on people's everyday lives, like deciding whether someone qualifies for a bank loan or whether a rental application is approved. Full episode here: marketplace.org/episode/2025/0…

Watch @sarahbmyers @bcmerchant @ruchowdh break it down in this excellent primer by @MorePerfectUS 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 @sarahbmyers, @ruchowdh, and others

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)?

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.

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

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.

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