# Sarah Myers West

Sarah Myers West is an AI Now Institute researcher examining technology, corporate power and public policy.

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[Collection](/entities/sarah-myers-west)
[Original website](https://ainowinstitute.org/contributor/sarah-myers-west)

## Sources

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

## Perspectives

- [Who can challenge the decision matters](/perspectives?position=ai-now-public-power) (Kate Brennan, Amba Kak & Sarah Myers West): 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.

## Terminal notes


## Parallels

- [Whose voice, whose say?](/parallels?parallel=shared-creation): When your work helps train a model, what would make you a collaborator?
- [Access is a beginning](/parallels?parallel=access-and-power): Who can turn access to AI into a real choice?
- [A discovery is a beginning](/parallels?parallel=discovery-to-benefit): What has to happen for a technical advance to become a shared benefit?

## Context references

- [https://ainowinstitute.org/contributor/sarah-myers-west](https://ainowinstitute.org/contributor/sarah-myers-west)
- [https://ainowinstitute.org/](https://ainowinstitute.org/)
- [https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/research/ai-now-2025-landscape-report](https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/research/ai-now-2025-landscape-report)

Latest published distillations: [Publications API](/api/pipeline/publications?entity=sarah-myers-west)