Sarah Myers West
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What’s really motivating these AI apocalypse stories?
AI Now Institute's Sarah Myers West argues that AI apocalypse narratives are strategically deployed to stall meaningful tech regulation, framing unregulated competition as a 'race to the bottom' that harms public interest and stifles fair competition.
Published Sep 19, 2026 · Analyzed Oct 11, 2026
How Existential Fears Are Shaping the Debate Over AI
AI Now Institute's Sarah Myers West critiques the dominance of existential-risk framing in AI policy debates, arguing it distracts from concrete, actionable harms and undermines effective regulation.
Sep 19, 2026
Companies Developing AI Have Rendered Process ‘More And More Opaque’: AI Expert
An AI policy analyst from AI Now Institute discussed AI development opacity, corporate responsibility, and political readiness in a Forbes interview, citing concerns from a former Anthropic researcher about existential AI risk.
Published Sep 16, 2026 · Analyzed Sep 19, 2026
Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
AI companies are accelerating large-scale AI development while deprioritizing baseline security investments, driven by competitive fear that rivals will dominate if they don’t act first.
Published Sep 15, 2026 · Analyzed Sep 19, 2026
Ex-Googlers Are Planning AI-Human Hybrid to Prevent Rogue Models
AI Now Institute leadership critiques industry reliance on generic AI safety benchmarks and advocates for use-case-specific evaluations to mitigate real-world harms, citing medicine as an analog for context-sensitive validation.
Published Aug 25, 2026 · Analyzed Sep 6, 2026
Related Claims
01 The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.
02 The industry has relied too heavily on general benchmarks and should instead develop evaluations tailored to all the different ways real people use the technology in their daily lives.
03 AI companies are cutting investment in baseline security protocols while scaling AI development.
04 Whenever we’ve seen any movement toward meaningful regulation of the tech industry, we see a revival of this [race] narrative.
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