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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Big Tech’s power “is contingent on a public that is submissive [and] passive,” as Amba Kak says in Brian Bergstein’s Boston Globe piece. But that’s changing. The public is reasserting power and demanding a say in our technological future.
Jul 9, 2025
Why the AI moratorium’s defeat may signal a new political era
The moratorium fight may have signaled a bigger political shift. “In the last few months, we’ve seen a much broader and more diverse coalition form in support of AI regulation generally,” says Amba Kak, co–executive director of the AI Now Institute. After years of relative inaction, politicians are getting concerned about the risks of unregulated artificial intelligence.
Jul 9, 2025
What Open AI Doesn’t Want You to Know
AI companies are spending millions to get the laws they want. They’re not trying to cure cancer, or save America. These companies want to make $100 billion overnight, and they’re willing to sponsor dangerous laws to make it happen.
Jul 2, 2025
Senators Came to Their Senses on AI Regulation Ban
“If there’s one lesson from the last decade of social media,” Kak added, “it’s that it’s difficult, maybe even impossible, to catch up with this tech sector once business models and practices have already been entrenched.”
Jul 1, 2025
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See AllPeople’s AI Action Plan Launches to Provide Counter-Weight to Trump’s Industry-Backed AI Plan and EOs
AI Now Institute
Jul 22, 2025
NYC Book Launch: Empire of AI
AI Now Institute
May 30, 2025
AI Now Co-ED Amba Kak Testifies Against a Ten-Year Ban on State AI Enforcement Before the House Committee on Energy & Commerce
AI Now Institute
May 21, 2025