We look forward to seeing some of you at our final office hour session, next Tuesday, 4/30, at 4pm ET.

We are happy to answer questions prospective applicants may have about the roles we are hiring for, and about working at AI Now.

Register to attend:
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The first of these sessions is starting now! Joining info below ⬇️

In the German parliament today for the Green‘s shaping AI conference where Amba Kak is giving a keynote on Big Tech power and what a public interest European industrial policy could look like 🙌🏻
AI Now Institute

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In remarks FTC AI Summit, Amba Kak stated, “This AI race is based on assumptions about scale and speed as proxy for progress. It's based on narrow benchmarks, that never contend with long term environmental or labor impacts, or impacts on our information environment.”

Job alert!

We’re hiring – AI Now is growing the team with new roles in policy and operations.

Help us find our next Associate Director and Operations Director: ainowinstitute.org/careers-2

🔥✊'Increasingly it's union contracts, and labour actions that are setting the terms under which AI tools are going to be deployed in the real world' - Sarah Myers West said.
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Loved being on @aljazeera about US v. Apple last week. The message is clear: regulators are taking a very close look at the unprecedented power that a handful of tech companies have accumulated over the past decade - long-overdue and positive.
#competition #apple #antitrust

'Claiming that there is an A.I. magic wand is a misunderstanding of both nuclear safety engineering, and how A.I. systems fundamentally behave' – Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) to The New Republic

We are grateful to Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) for recognizing our work.

During the ceremony, we took the opportunity to reflect both on this moment and the urgency of the task ahead; read our remarks here: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-now…

On 4/10 at 1 PM ET, we are hosting the “New Tech, Old Story: How Understanding the History of Worker Surveillance Should Inform Policies and Regulation” panel as part of Tech & Society week Tech & Society at Georgetown! RSVP for both in person and livestream here: docs.google.com/forms/d/10Bh48…

Speaking of favorite bits in the new OMB memo (see Nik Marda thread for the breakdown why it matters x.com/nrmarda/status…):

Detailed public disclosures of every AI use case across government alongside risk reporting. Followed by least favorite (& most dangerous)... (1/2)

Today, OMB released its final guidance on federal agency use of AI.

While it contains some important measures requiring agencies to test and evaluate “rights-impacting” AI systems, these measures are at risk of being undercut by potential loopholes.

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.POLITICOEurope's Laurie Clarke digs in to Matt Davies's essay in our latest collection on AI Nationalism(s), which pushes the UK to interrogate whether “public benefit” exists in the context of AI.

Read the entire global collection here:
ainowinstitute.org/ai-nationalisms

New report launched today, “MyCity, INC: A Case against ‘CompStat Urbanism”, highlights concerns about the potential for technology to expand policing & embed corporate entanglements into digital public infrastructure
🔗 surveillanceresistancelab.org/resources/myci…