# Aya Ibrahim

Aya Ibrahim is described by AI Now as leading its national security work and as a former Biden White House official.

Type: person. Context selected by Escape Meridian; inclusion is not endorsement.

[Collection](/entities/aya-ibrahim)
[Original website](https://ainowinstitute.org/news/is-this-how-the-world-ends-extinction-scenarios-are-taking-over-the-ai-debate)

## Sources

- [AI Now Institute](https://ainowinstitute.org/): Connect AI deployment to corporate power, labor, public institutions and accountability.

## Perspectives

- [Not knowing how to code is not a reason to leave the decision alone](/perspectives?position=ibrahim-learned-helplessness) (Aya Ibrahim): Ibrahim says policymakers who are willing to govern energy, commerce, and drugs treat their inability to code as a reason not to weigh in on technology.

## Terminal notes

- [Aya Ibrahim on policymakers' learned helplessness about tech](/notes/ai-now-ibrahim-2026-09-21.md): In an excerpt republished by AI Now, Aya Ibrahim questions why officials comfortable overseeing energy and medicine defer to technologists when discussing AI.

## Parallels

- [Use it now, or govern it now?](/parallels?parallel=present-use-and-present-harm): When today's systems already change work, which present effects should set the agenda?

## Context references

- [https://ainowinstitute.org/news/is-this-how-the-world-ends-extinction-scenarios-are-taking-over-the-ai-debate](https://ainowinstitute.org/news/is-this-how-the-world-ends-extinction-scenarios-are-taking-over-the-ai-debate)

Latest published distillations: [Publications API](/api/pipeline/publications?entity=aya-ibrahim)