AI Now Institute

What are the implications if the AI boom turns to bust? @smw.bsky.social spoke with @justinhendrix.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Ryan Cummings about whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a crash could reshape policy and public sentiment.

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For @vox.com, @sigalsamuel.bsky.social gathered advice for those who hate how generative AI is being rolled out. @smw.bsky.social speaks to working collectively to fight against AI being used on us, not by us.
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

Meet CoreWeave, the AI industry’s ticking time bomb The debt-laden AI compute company has been boosted by Nvidia.

Essential reading in the AI bubble and the wild Wild West that is the neocloud market - with lots of insight from @leevisaari.bsky.social

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🚨The final event in our popular series with the NYPL is happening on Thursday, w an incredible panel of experts discussing the value of human labor in the face of increasing automation. Reserve your in-person spot (they're going quickly) or RSVP to join us online! www.showclix.com/event/unders...

From the workplace to ICE, AI surveillance puts all of us at risk. Join organizers and policy experts TODAY at 2pm ET to learn about ways & resources to fight back. Pre-register here: bit.ly/stopAIsurveillance

Join us for a webinar on December 4th at 1 pm ET to launch our North Star Policy Toolkit for Data center Organizers & Policymakers. We’ll preview the guide and feature a panel of organizers who have won local and state battles against data center expansion.

Register: bit.ly/data-center-...

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AI’s massive power demands—and Trump’s done a lot to make it easier for them. Heidy Khlaaf, the head AI scientist at the AI Now Institute, tells us why that’s dangerous.

@mjgault.bsky.social has the story:
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Read @404media.co's piece on our new nuclear & AI report by @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social and Dr Sofia Guerra, "Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI.”

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Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.

OUR @wsj.com OPED: The AI bubble debate misses what's already happening: a massive gov bailout, fast-tracked infrastructure, guaranteed contracts & regulatory exemptions. AI firms get a taxpayer-funded insurance policy that dot-com companies could only dream of.

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Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI - AI Now Institute A report examining nuclear “fast-tracking” initiatives on their feasibility and their impact on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards.

New Report: Fission for Algorithms. We draw on our nuclear expertise to dissect the risky fast-tracking initiatives hastening nuclear development in service of AI. This includes proposals to use Gen AI for nuclear licensing, whilst lowering well-established nuclear thresholds.

Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI - AI Now Institute A report examining nuclear “fast-tracking” initiatives on their feasibility and their impact on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards.

NEW REPORT: "Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI” exposes efforts to fast-track nuclear development to power AI, including using gen AI in nuclear licensing while weakening regulation – a risky shortcut with catastrophic consequences.

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AI Triad: A Dialogue Across Differences Artificial intelligence isn’t just a technology—it’s a battleground of competing values, incentives, and worldviews.

On November 5th, @ambakak.bsky.social is joining @jasoncrawford.org from Roots of Progress and Brian McGrail from the Center for AI Safety Action Fund at the Berkman Klein Center for “AI Triad: A Dialogue Across Differences.”

RSVP to attend in-person or on Zoom: cyber.harvard.edu/events/ai-tr...

New Voices Shaping Narrative of Technology for the Public Interest

Congratulations to AI Now’s Alli Finn for being selected as a Public Voices Fellow by The OpEd Project, supported by MacArthur! Alli joins 20 notable leaders and thinkers working at the intersection of technology and society.

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The fusing of AI firms and the state is leading to a dangerous concentration of power A researcher says that we should focus not just on AI-related job loss or LLM models--but on the consolidation of market power between tech firms building AI and the government

“We are treating AI as if it is operating under typical market imperatives. But what we’re actually seeing is a market that is being backstopped by government intervention,” said @smw.bsky.social to @hardresetmedia.com.

Read the interview here: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-fusing...

Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work? Anthropic partnered with the US government to create a filter meant to block Claude from helping someone build a nuke. Experts are divided on whether its a necessary protection—or a protection at all.

Anthropic’s partnership with the DOE to keep Claude from building a nuclear weapon makes for good headlines. @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social calls it security theater. The real risk is AI firms gaining access to national security data.

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“We don’t need to treat AI as inevitable.” @smw.bsky.social sat down with @pocan.house.gov to talk about AI in healthcare, military, and jobs and how we can choose a future where AI is being used by us, not on us by a handful of big corporations.

Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUt...

If you’ll be at Circuit Breakers this weekend, join our session on Sunday at 2:30pm with @amzn4climate.bsky.social: "Al & Tech Power: How Tech Workers Are Fighting for Our Jobs, Communities, and Climate."

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Alli Finn joined Philly Tech Justice Collective, TechTonic Justice & Philly Thrive to testify in a city council meeting on Philly's use of AI and technology. Alli cautioned legislators: public tech must serve public needs, rather than corporate power and profits.

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The Rise and Fall of Nvidia’s Geopolitical Strategy | TechPolicy.Press Nvidia's geopolitical balancing act between the US and China flopped after an arduous lobbying campaign, Leevi Saari writes.

Nvidia has been selling the story that what’s good for Nvidia is good for America. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, AI Now fellow @leevisaari.bsky.social analyzes how that story fused corporate power with US policy and backfired.

Read it here: www.techpolicy.press/the-rise-and...

Philadelphia City Council Hearing on AI YouTube video by PhillyCAM

Tune in tomorrow at 10am ET to hear AI Now’s Alli Finn testify about policymaking on AI at the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Technology & Information Services.

Watch the livestream: www.youtube.com/live/MStyhFb...

Read Alli’s testimony: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

Open Markets Institute The Open Markets Institute is a team of researchers, lawyers, economists, journalists, and advocates working to protect democracy from concentrated power. #StopMonopolies

Tomorrow, AI Now’s @kate-brennan.bsky.social is speaking at @openmarkets.bsky.social’s The Future of Democracy conference in Brussels.

Watch her panel, “Safeguarding information integrity in the age of AI,” with Roger McNamee and others via livestream at 7:30am ET: www.youtube.com/c/OpenMarket...

ChatGPT safety systems can be bypassed to get weapons instructions NBC News found that OpenAI’s models repeatedly provided answers on making chemical and biological weapons.

“That OpenAI’s guardrails are so easily tricked illustrates why it’s important to have robust pre-deployment testing of AI models before they cause substantial harm. Companies can’t be left to do their own homework,” says @smw.bsky.social in @nbcnews.com.

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AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model By Brian Merchant In This Article Introduction OpenAI and the Generative AI Boom Silicon Valley Mythology, Distilled and Accelerated From “Safe AI” to AGI — and the Hype-Led Business Model Genesis Mar...

For further reading, check out Brian Merchant’s report on the rise of AGI and the rush to find a working revenue mode:
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YouTube video by The Maybe Are AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers West

Watch the interview here: youtu.be/WvN1wQ_CBlY

Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/are-...

NVIDIA’s $100B OpenAI investment is a reflection of a larger trend: companies investing in their own customers to create a veneer of a functioning market that isn’t actually producing economic value. @smw.bsky.social explained the economics of the ever-inflating AI bubble on Computer Says Maybe.

RJI Fellows Nicole Lewis and Lam Vo speak with Alli Finn, senior partnerships and strategy lead at the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, who collaborates with and supports communities and organizations that are facing harm from AI systems and push for alternatives. rjionline.org/news/how-to-...

YouTube video by The Maybe Let Them Eat Compute: Computer Says Maybe LIVE from Climate Week

Last week we co-hosted a live show with Computer Says Maybe at Climate Week NYC on AI and data center expansion. If you missed it, catch the recording!

Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KS...
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1/ It’s time to get real about Amazon and AI. Amazon coworkers: sign our open letter below to tell Amazon leadership that we need a more responsible rollout of AI. Everyone else: Send our letter to anyone who works at Amazon or even in the tech industry.
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YouTube video by The Maybe Are AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers West

I don’t want AI companies to get a bailout. I said this to @smw.bsky.social of @ainowinstitute.bsky.social last week, and she said they already were being bailed out. We sat down to talk about it in our first full-form video interview here:
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