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Amba Kak, co-executive director of AI Now and another coauthor of the report, says that her organization “has been quite focused” on government policy as a way to enact change, but adds that it’s become clear those levers will be unsuccessful unless power is built from below. “We need to make sure that AI is resonating as an issue that is affecting people’s material lives, not as this abstract tech thing over there.”
“What’s unique to this moment is this push to integrate AI everywhere. It’s granting tech companies and the people that run them new kinds of power that go way beyond just deepening their pockets,” says Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of AI Now and one of the authors of the report. “We’re talking about this profound social and economic and political reshaping of the fabric of our lives, and that necessitates a different way of accounting for AI harms.”
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