Will Europe succeed in building truly public digital infrastructure for AI, or will its investments entrench Big Tech’s dominance? These and other questions will guide AI Now’s work shaping the EU’s industrial policy for AI. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eb4mYKfq
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The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
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Alix Dunn
I work with serious troublemakers to facilitate change. Technology ⇆ society.
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Adora Svitak
Writer & PhD candidate in Sociology & Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Frederike Kaltheuner
Founder and Advisor | Shaping Emerging Technology and Policy for the Public Interest
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Raktima Roy
Privacy & Policy Attorney (NY, USA and India) | Georgetown Law | Foundry Fellow | Ex Senior Associate, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, India
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Looking forward to discussing technology and power, and the merits (and limits!) of regulation in challenging power concentration in AI with Stefan Heumann and Tobias Haar, LL.M., MBA in Berlin tomorrow! Thanks for the invitation, Baden-Badener Unternehmer Gespräche e.V. (BBUG) and TLGG Consulting
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AI Now will be discussing the promise of “public interest AI,” and how we might build it, in Europe next week. First, in Paris, Amba Kak, Meredith Whittaker, and Abeba Birhane will join Tanya Perelmuter and Anne Bouverot at Fondation Abeona to argue that what we know as "AI" is largely based on a few dominant US firms–and discuss what it will take to break out of that paradigm. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eyYiX3CY Next, in Brussels, Cristina Caffarra will host AI Now's Amba Kak and Meredith Whittaker; and Adriana Groh, Audrey Tang, Barry Lynn, E. Glen Weyl, and Francesca Bria to ask: what is public interest innovation, and how do we get there? What role should the state play? There is limited capacity, so register below. https://lnkd.in/ewscWVNM
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We’re excited to see interest in the positions AI Now recently posted: https://lnkd.in/eExvJ78D If you have questions about these positions or AI Now as a workplace, we’re happy to answer them. For equity reasons, we will hold two office hours sessions so folks can reach us at the same time. Please register your interest using the links below and we will send you logistical details: Friday, April 19, 2024 – 10 am EST: https://lnkd.in/eHGAAsDs Tuesday, April 30, 2024 – 4 pm EST: https://lnkd.in/ehDBV9rM As a reminder, we’re accepting applications through May 2nd and are interested in hearing from individuals with a diverse range of experiences. Please share widely and we hope to see you at office hours!
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Job alert: AI Now is growing the team with new roles in policy and operations. We’re recruiting for two new full time positions to join our team and hoping you can help us find the right people for our open roles: Operations Director and Associate Director. Please share these opportunities widely. Operations Director: We are searching for an experienced leader who can design, develop, and execute on operational processes and practices that demonstrate and build on the organization’s values. Associate Director: This hire will occupy a critical role in our growing organization, devoted to incisive policy strategy on cutting-edge issues shaping the trajectory of artificial intelligence. This role is designed primarily around the research, development and execution of policy strategy, with an emphasis on operationalizing programs. Head over to our postings here to learn more and please share with your networks: https://lnkd.in/eExvJ78D
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AI Now is approaching a year since the launch of our 2023 Landscape Report - and what a year it’s been. We’re proud of the work we’ve put out into the world, but most particularly we are appreciative of our community: we’re a small team kept buoyant by a wide network of collaborators. With that in mind, we’d like to share a few team updates to celebrate. Several new members will be joining AI Now’s team in the coming months: Brian Merchant will join us as Journalist In Residence, interrogating the business model underpinning the AI boom of the past year. Frederike Kaltheuner will join us as Senior EU and Global Governance Lead, where she’ll develop AI Now’s engagement in Europe and in global governance fora on issues of the concentration of power in tech. Leevi Saari has also joined us as an EU Policy Fellow, researching key movements in the policy landscape and their implications across the Atlantic. Mehtab Khan will join us as Visiting Policy Fellow, contributing to deepening our research engagement on AI regulatory issues. Alix Dunn has joined us as Senior Advisor, providing strategic and operational guidance to the organization as we grow in this new chapter. Alix is the CEO and founder of Computer Says Maybe. Lucy Suchman has joined us as a Faculty Advisor. Lucy’s ongoing critical scholarship and advocacy on issues relating to artificial intelligence and contemporary war fighting has profoundly shaped the field. We encourage you to read her most recent piece, “The Algorithmically Accelerated Killing Machine”, and to watch her salon on our series, “What is AI?”. Three of AI Now’s fellows have moved on to new exciting roles. We are grateful for their contributions this past year, and congratulate them on the road ahead: Ben Winters, who worked with us as a Senior Policy Fellow, will be joining the Policy and Strategy Section of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division as an Attorney Advisor. Anna Lenhart, who worked with us as a Visiting Policy Fellow, is now Specialized Faculty at GW Institute for Data Democracy and Politics on leave to the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Anna collaborated with us as we interrogated the FDA model for AI regulation and shared learnings; an initial read-out of this work is available here. Jai Vipra, who worked with us as a Research Fellow, will be embarking on her PhD in Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, after a CyberBRICS Fellowship. Jai is the lead author of the Computational Power and AI report. We’ll also continue collaborating with Kerry McInerney, PhD on our work analyzing the so-called US-China AI Arms Race and its impacts on tech policy, and with Jane Chung of Justice Speaks Strategies as our Communications Advisor on our narrative and communications work. Amba Kak and Sarah Myers West will continue to lead the Institute as co-Executive Directors. We will be announcing plans to expand the team further with additional hires soon - please watch this space!
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Last week, we joined several organizations including Open Markets Institute to submit comments to the European Commission on competition and generative AI, outlining the strategies tech giants are using to consolidate their hold on the market. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eQnwBKgV
Pleased to share this joint submission from a group of civil society organisations – Open Markets Institute, AI Now Institute, ARTICLE 19, Mozilla, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, Foxglove, Balanced Economy Project and Rebalance Now – to the European Commission's consultation on competition in generative AI. Our submission highlights the already excessive levels of economic concentration in the AI technology stack – particularly in data, computing power and talent – and warns of the potential for monopolistic abuse in such a consolidated market. It explores a range of actual and potential anti-competitive harms in AI, including partnerships between tech giants and startups, unfair self-preferencing practices, exploitative treatment of consumers and businesses, and restricting access to critical inputs and technical capabilities. We call on the EU to act swiftly to prevent a few firms from controlling the future development of AI, and identify a number of areas in which the Commission's competition policy toolkit could be strengthened to allow for this, from updating the Digital Markets Act and merger control regime to introducing a new market investigation tool.
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We're honored to have our work recognized by Center for AI and Digital Policy after what has been a pivotal year for the AI field. While we've been pushing for narrative and policy change in AI since 2016, this has been a particular inflection point for the organization - we're excited to carry the work forward along with you all and appreciate the support. Amba Kak Sarah Myers West
📢 CAIDP Announces the Winners of the 2024 AI Policy Leader Awards CAIDP is proud to announce the winners of the 2nd Annual AI Policy Leader Awards, recognizing exceptional individuals who have made significant contributions to shaping AI policies that prioritize human rights, democratic values, and the rule of law. Academia: Prof. Anu Bradford, Columbia Law School Business: Linda Bonyo, Founder, Lawyers Hub Civil Society: AI Now Institute - Amba Kak Sarah Myers West Government: Gabriela Ramos, Assistant Director General, UNESCO This year's honorees follow in the footsteps of our inaugural 2023 winners: Professor Stuart Russell, Beena Ammanath, Tawana Petty, and Jan Kleijssen, who set a high standard for excellence in their respective fields. These leaders, along with our 2023 awardees, have demonstrated unwavering commitment to advancing responsible AI practices and have played a crucial role in guiding the global conversation on ethical AI development. #AIpolicyleaders #aigovernance #academics #business #civilsociety #government Lorraine Kisselburgh Merve Hickok
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Today AI Now Institute published “AI Nationalism(s)”: a new collection of essays spotlighting global perspectives on AI industrial policies. The chapters in this collection, authored by regional experts covering the US, UK, EU, India, South Africa, and the UAE, detail the range of these initiatives and – across the board – find the lack of a coherent public interest vision beyond the imperatives of the tech and defense industry. Instead, current industrial policy approaches to AI serve nationalist geopolitical rivalry and economic competitiveness. While this collection grapples with the limitations of the current approach to AI industrial policy, the work ahead is a much more difficult task: articulating the kind of AI economy we want in the first place. Making AI the starting point leads us down the wrong path: it presumes we’ll be better served by funding tech industry infrastructures than community colleges, healthcare and fixing our climate. We intend for this to serve as a provocation for taking this conversation forward, beyond the geographic boundaries of the United States and EU, and beyond the silos of tech policy debates. Read the full collection of essays here⤵ https://lnkd.in/eYaF4-tR Amba Kak Sarah Myers West Max von Thun-Hohenstein Yoshioka Jyoti Panday Mila Samdub Matt Davies Sandra Makumbirofa, PhD
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This week, Amba Kak was profiled by Dominic-Madori Davis at TechCrunch on her global career advocating for tech that serves the public interest, navigating tech industry spaces, and the work at AI Now Institute that she’s most proud of: https://lnkd.in/gJezxK8E
Women in AI: Amba Kak creates policy recommendations to address AI concerns | TechCrunch
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