The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
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The People’s AI Assembly was an evening full of inspiring conversations, energy, and power. Together with @MorePerfectUS, we brought together organizers, labor and policy leaders, artists, journalists, and thousands of everyday folks in-person and online.
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At the heart of it is mystery. Author Arundhati Roy spoke with @NaomiAKlein and @_KarenHao about why she writes at the People’s AI Assembly, co-hosted with @MorePerfectUS.
Watch this full conversation and the whole assembly here: bit.ly/watch-ai-assembly
This December (12/9), AI Now's Chief AI Scientist @HeidyKhlaaf will deliver a keynote at @BlackHatEvents about how AI companies are co-opting and conflating AI security and safety methods and terminology to the detriment of overall security posture.
A new interactive map from @earthjustice & Better Data Center Project shows how data center developers are building their own dirty gas power plants all across the country to meet these facilities’ staggering power demand.
Explore the map here👇 betterdatacenterproject.com/…
AI companies continue to push their tech into national and safety infrastructure, despite their own doomsday warnings. In reality, it is the actual technical failures that will cause catastrophic harm, says AI Now's @HeidyKhlaaf in @theintercept.
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The tech industry and data center developers have promoted "Bring Your Own Power" as a false solution to address the energy crisis they've created.
In reality, BYOP means more dirty gas-powered data centers. New research shows that communities continue to pay the price. 👇
Explore the data and key findings in "The AI Gas Rush: Risks and Implications of 'Bring Your Own Power.'”
via @Earthjustice and Better Data Center Project
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There are standard cybersecurity protocols, like a proper test environment, that some AI companies clearly fail to implement.
We should be wary of ‘rogue AI’ narratives that enable these companies to absolve their responsibility, says AI Now's @bmilanov.
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This is a moment for govt to "regulate [the AI] industry from soup to nuts, build state capacity to investigate corporate negligence, and pass legislation protecting the public from worst-case uses," says AI Now's @Kabakab.
Read more via @nytimes: nytimes.com/2026/10/26/magaz…
Featured as @techreview's quote of the day: AI Now's Senior Director @Kabakab on why we need enforceable action to regulate AI companies, not voluntary measures put forth by the companies themselves.
Read the full @nytimes roundtable discussion: nytimes.com/2026/10/26/magaz…
What else, if not a data center?
A wetland is a perfectly fine part of our community, says Grandell “Bird” Hallett Logan (@brenamen26), spokesperson of the Tonawanda Seneca Nation.
Recorded at the People's AI Assembly, co-hosted w/ @MorePerfectUS. Watch: bit.ly/watch-ai-assembly
At a @nytimes roundtable on AI risk and regulation, AI Now's Senior Director @Kabakab stressed the need for enforceable action to address the damage AI companies are willing to inflict as they gamble with our lives and our economy. nytimes.com/2026/10/26/magaz…
AI companies are spending trillions to build out their technology. In order to make good on this expenditure, "they need to push this tech everywhere, into all of our public institutions," says AI Now's Kate Brennan at a @nytimes roundtable. Read it here: nytimes.com/2026/10/26/magaz…
So much happening in AI world. What should the govt do in response? Thanks to @SnehaRevanur @DKokotajlo @tylercowen @AlexBores & @Kabakab for hashing out answers with me in an NYT roundtable. nytimes.com/2026/10/26/magaz…
Large bets around our economy and our futures are not being made by everyday people or our elected leaders. They're being made by a small group of billionaire tech CEOs and that's the problem, says AI Now's @ambaonadventure on @AoT_WE.
Watch the episode: youtu.be/eMtZapUxyX4?si=teM5…
Matt Rodriguez (@projectamanecer & @athenaforall) talks about building the kind of power to not only push back against AI abuses, but for communities to decide their own futures.
Recorded at the People’s AI Assembly, co-hosted w/@MorePerfectUS. Watch at bit.ly/watch-ai-assembly
Catastrophic job loss is a political decision. Lorena Gonzalez, President of the @CaliforniaLabor, speaking at the People’s AI Assembly, co-hosted with @MorePerfectUS.
Watch this panel discussion and the entire Assembly at bit.ly/watch-ai-assembly
This movement is about joy, purpose and dignity, and about making life worth living for more people. Naomi Klein (@naomiaklein) joins Arundhati Roy and @_KarenHao at the People's AI Assembly to talk about how we reimagine and build another world.
Co-hosted with @perfectunion.
Explore resources mentioned during the Assembly, including Naomi and @astradisastra's new book “End Times Fascism" here: ainowinstitute.org/assembly#…
Watch the full conversation between Naomi Klein, Arundhati Roy, and Karen Hao, plus the whole Assembly here: bit.ly/watch-ai-assembly.
