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Kate Brennan

Kate Brennan is an AI Now Institute researcher and coauthor of its 2025 report on power and policy in AI.

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Who can challenge the decision matters

The authors argue that AI’s direction is a political choice. They call for worker organizing, enforceable limits and public accountability, so affected people can contest how institutions use AI rather than accept its expansion as inevitable.

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Connect AI deployment to corporate power, labor, public institutions and accountability.

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Policy recommendations involve normative choices; inspect each report's methods, evidence and funding context.

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