Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report
Jun 3, 2025
Our latest annual report maps the current state of play with the AI market, interrogates the industry’s key sources of power, and provides an actionable strategy to reclaim public agency over the future of AI.
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See AllWhat’s the real cost of chasing AGI? Power consolidation is just the start, says the AI Now Institute.
On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan caught up with Amba Kak and Dr. Sarah Myers West from the AI Now Institute, a think tank focused on the social implications of AI and the consolidation of power in the tech industry. Their recent report, dubbed Artificial Power, lays out the political economy driving today’s AI frenzy and what’s at stake for everyone else.
Sep 3, 2025
Is the AI Bubble Too Big to Fail?
“We’re now locked into a particular version of the market and the future where all roads lead to big tech,” says Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which studies AI development and policy. Indeed, the success of major stock indexes—and perhaps your 401(k)—is resting on the continued growth of AI: Meta, Amazon, and the chipmakers Nvidia and Broadcom have accounted for 60 percent of the S&P 500’s returns this year.
Aug 28, 2025
Did Sam Altman Accidentally Admit That the AI Bubble Is Here?
Did Sam Altman Accidentally Admit That the AI Bubble Is Here? The economics seem fuzzy at best, but the largest AI companies are unlikely to take a financial hit because of U.S. government subsidies, says Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, a policy organization.
Aug 12, 2025
Experts worry about transparency, unforeseen risks as DOD forges ahead with new frontier AI projects
“We’ve particularly warned before that commercial models pose a much more significant safety and security threat than military purpose-built models, and instead this announcement has disregarded these known risks and boasts about commercial use as an accelerator for AI, which is indicative of how these systems have clearly not been appropriately assessed,” Khlaaf explained.
Aug 4, 2025
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See AllStatement from Kate Brennan, Associate Director at the AI Now Institute on the remedy decision in US v. Google
AI Now Institute
Sep 3, 2025
AI Now Chief AI Scientist Dr. Heidy Khlaaf Included on Time 100 AI 2025 List
AI Now Institute
Aug 28, 2025
People’s AI Action Plan Launches to Provide Counter-Weight to Trump’s Industry-Backed AI Plan and EOs
AI Now Institute
Jul 22, 2025