Our latest annual report diagnoses concentration of power in the tech industry as a pressing challenge – and points the path forward to seize this moment of change.
This report highlights a set of approaches that, in concert, will collectively enable us to confront tech power. Some of these are bold policy reforms that underscore the need for bright-line rules and structural curbs. Others identify popular policy responses that, because they fail to meaningfully address power discrepancies, should be abandoned. Several aren’t in the traditional domain of policy at all, but acknowledge the importance of nonregulatory interventions such as collective action, worker organizing, and the role public policy can play in bolstering these efforts. We intend this report to provide strategic guidance to inform the work ahead of us, taking a bird’s eye view of the many levers we can use to shape the future trajectory of AI – and the tech industry behind it – to ensure that it is the public, not industry, that this technology serves.
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute
Data minimization policies – bright line rules that prohibit excessive or harmful data collection and use – are a tool for AI accountability.
Tech firms are wielding unprecedented amounts of capital to expand their base of power in creative ways. Civil society should explore structural points for intervention.
Big Tech infrastructures are locking us into an unsustainable future.
