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Join us March 5 in DC to discuss how algorithmic management technologies are shaping one of the largest labor sectors in the country — healthcare — and what happens when nurses use AI to bid against each other for shifts. Learn how the surveillance technologies that are uprooting care work are the same tools that threaten consumer prices. Explore another case of Big Tech’s multi-pronged assault on the regulatory state. And (maybe) build consensus about what comes next. Veena Dubal, David Seligman, Mark Graham, Funda Ustek Spilda, and Chenjerai Kumanyika will guide us through the new tech wilderness and how to make sense of findings in the Fairwork US 2025 Report. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eCsiWVye

Our AI Now Institute statement on the UK AI Safety Institute transition to the UK AI Security Institute: AISI’s partnership with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the Ministry of Defence’s science and technology organisation, heralds the UK government turning its attention to focus on frontier AI use within the defense and national security apparatus. This comes on the heels of a slew of recent announcements that major AI companies are to be integrating their frontier AI models into national security use cases. As our research has demonstrated, these systems carry significant risks, including threats to national security given the cyber vulnerabilities inherent to frontier AI models, and that the sensitive data for which they may be trained can be extracted by adversaries (https://lnkd.in/gmdvr4qJ). While we welcome AISI’s signals to potentially investigate these risks amidst heightened “AI race” dynamics, we warn against an approach that under the banner of security would apply piecemeal or superficial scrutiny that gives these systems a clean chit before they are ready. These issues cannot be easily fixed or patched, and require independent safety critical evaluation which must be insulated from industry partnerships (https://lnkd.in/e66fRhwh). If our leaders barrel ahead with their plans to implement frontier AI for defense use, they risk undermining our national security. This is a trade-off that AI’s purported benefits cannot justify.

Our AI Now Institute statement on the UK AI Safety Institute transition to the UK AI Security Institute: AISI’s partnership with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the Ministry of Defence’s science and technology organisation, heralds the UK government turning its attention to focus on frontier AI use within the defense and national security apparatus. This comes on the heels of a slew of recent announcements that major AI companies are to be integrating their frontier AI models into national security use cases. As our research has demonstrated, these systems carry significant risks, including threats to national security given the cyber vulnerabilities inherent to frontier AI models, and that the sensitive data for which they may be trained can be extracted by adversaries (https://lnkd.in/gmdvr4qJ). While we welcome AISI’s signals to potentially investigate these risks amidst heightened “AI race” dynamics, we warn against an approach that under the banner of security would apply piecemeal or superficial scrutiny that gives these systems a clean chit before they are ready. These issues cannot be easily fixed or patched, and require independent safety critical evaluation which must be insulated from industry partnerships (https://lnkd.in/e66fRhwh). If our leaders barrel ahead with their plans to implement frontier AI for defense use, they risk undermining our national security. This is a trade-off that AI’s purported benefits cannot justify.

Want to watch 4 amazing women debrief on the Paris Action Summit? Our first Computer Says Maybe live show, and the AI Action Summit are a wrap! We cover: -what makes civil society optimistic and cynical about the Summit -why it's so hard to advocate against concentration of power -what we can learn from countries that have embraced digital 'sovereignty' and why tech nationalism leads to more corporate consolidation Thanks to Abeba Birhane, Nabiha Syed, Amba Kak, and Astha Kapoor for supporting collective catharsis after days of choreography and superficial conversation at the Summit. Also. People talk a lot about community. This week has been a doozy. Days of intense work with colleagues launching something huge at the AI Action Summit. I walked into this first live show exhausted. Rather than being stressed out, I felt totally at home with ~80 friends and had the absolute best time. Thank you to AI Now Institute for co-hosting, Mozilla for sponsoring, and to all our friends who made the trek to be with one another at the end of a mad week. And to friends from near and far that came to support, you made it very special. Julia Keseru, Fanny Hidvégi, Camille Fran?ois, Marin Bergman, Cora Bauer, Amélie Baudot, Nishant Lalwani, Frederike Kaltheuner, Soizic Pénicaud, Jake Slater, Astha Kapoor, Nabiha Syed, Udbhav Tiwari, Andrew Strait, Farzana Dudhwala, Tariq Khokhar, Emrys Schoemaker, Sandor Lederer, Diana Spehar, Vidushi Marda, Martin Tisné, Raegan MacDonald, Ania Calderon, Brian J. Chen, Charles Johnson, Andrea Dehlendorf, Daniel Stone, Damini Satija, Rebecca Finlay, Ami Fields-Meyer, Anna Tumadóttir. To others, I have for the first time exceeded the maximum mention limit :) Missed it? This is a problem. Good news is, you can watch it on YouTube below, and we'll stream the audio on the podcast feed on Friday. https://lnkd.in/ep2sBUfz Thanks also to OxygenStream and The Morrison Group for the amazing support on the live stream the event.