AI Now Institute

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor join a wide-ranging conversation on the multitrillion-dollar global investment in artificial intelligence and its reverberating effects around the world.

At the People's AI Assembly, hosted by AI Now and More Perfect Union, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani and comedian Ilana Glazer discuss data center expansion and how the public can reassert control over AI.

At The People’s AI Assembly, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani argued that the technology’s rapid rollout is not inevitable and that public officials should hold AI companies accountable.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani discussed artificial intelligence and tech innovation at an event co-hosted by AI Now Institute and More Perfect Union.

Co-executive director Amba Kak joins Agents of Tech to unpack the consolidation of power among tech monopolies, the slow bailout of AI companies that the public is footing, regulation for the industry, and more.

AI Now's Co-Executive Director Sarah Myers West joined the Washington Journal to talk about how artificial intelligence should be regulated.

On Monday, October 5th, 2026, AI Now Program Associate Aashna Agarwal testified before the New York City Council at a Committee of the Whole hearing on the concrete risks of AI acceleration. In her testimony, Aashna outlined three critical ways that AI companies’ capital interests conflict with safeguarding the public from the risks posed by…

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.

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.

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.