Kate Brennan, Amba Kak & Sarah Myers West · Jun 3, 2025
Who can challenge the decision matters
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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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AI Now Institute · Authored report chapter
Original source date: Jun 3, 2025 (2025-06-03).
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Limits
Its recommendations express political values. The chapter’s cited cases require their own source checks before being reused as factual allegations.
Editorial test, not a stated concession
Compare interventions by whether affected people gain usable remedies and influence. Formal procedures that leave decisions untouched would challenge the proposed strategy.
supports
The chapter proposes worker organizing and scrutiny across the AI supply chain, including model developers, rather than relying only on downstream users.
Source and contributor context
Kate Brennan, Amba Kak & Sarah Myers West · Authors of AI Now’s 2025 Landscape Report
Policy researchers examining AI industry structure and public accountability.
This is a policy agenda and analysis, not a neutral experiment or a technical impossibility proof.
Declared interests are limited to the records linked here; absence of a record does not establish absence of an interest.
Assumptions
Editorial reconstruction: collective organizing and enforceable rules can change institutional incentives.
Editorial reconstruction: affected people should have practical power over deployment decisions.
Source media
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Questions between perspectives
Editorial comparison; no direct exchange established: Is the ability to adapt a model enough, or does meaningful choice also require institutional power?
Editorial comparison; no direct exchange established: How could a broad promise of human freedom become enforceable decision-making power?
Terms and references
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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.
Amba Kak
Amba Kak is a policy researcher at AI Now Institute working on public accountability and the power behind AI systems.
Sarah Myers West
Sarah Myers West is an AI Now Institute researcher examining technology, corporate power and public policy.
AI Now Institute
AI Now Institute studies the power and institutions shaping AI and advocates for public accountability.
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