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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"today’s highly concentrated and reckless AI industry did not just appear out of thin air with ChatGPT. it grew out of a decade of unregulated commercial surveillance and a permissive competition machine.” @ambakak.bsky.social 🎯 www.youtube.com/live/KDMITKP...

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Big Tech and Surveillance AI Shadow Hearing

YouTube video by Representative Pramila Jayapal

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

btw as AI companies co-opt the public narrative around "AI safety," the senate is scheduled to vote TODAY on a crypto bill with an "ai innovation lab" provision that would exempt AI companies from existing consumer protection laws: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

interrupting all the self serving industry ai safety discourse today to wish a very happy hadestown original lead cast pro shot recording lost boys cast album release day to you and yours

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

the idea that AI was going to disrupt—and not entrench— google's dominance in the search market has been flawed from the start! www.techpolicy.press/decision-in-...

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

my team at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social is hiring three new roles: a program associate, comms associate, and senior operations director. come join us in the fight to shape the future of AI in the public interest! more details here: bit.ly/49jMZe7

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Careers - AI Now Institute

Join us in this pivotal moment in the fight to shape the future of AI and its role in society.

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

so proud to launch this toolkit alongside dozens of trailblazing partners mapping the best policies to stop the unaccountable expansion of data centers at the local, state, and federal level. designed for visionaries and policy wonks alike, it answers "so what do we do?" with over 100 recos ✨

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

highly recommend @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social’s full interview on CNN refocusing the conversation around Anthopic’s fallout with the Pentagon on the pressing issue at hand: the US military is integrating LLMs across its systems despite their failure to meet existing safety and reliability standards

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

in the wake of us v. google, i wrote for @techpolicypress.bsky.social how generative AI is not going to magically unseat a dominant firm like google: it's going to enable it to become even more dominant. news in the past 24 hours shows exactly this (see thread!) www.techpolicy.press/decision-in-...

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Decision in US vs. Google Gets it Wrong on Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press

Google will continue to enjoy the fruits of its search monopoly to secure its success in the generative AI market, writes Kate Brennan.

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the US v. Google search antitrust case and just how badly the court missed the opportunity to contend with Google’s power in the genAI market. genAI won’t magically unseat Google’s market dominance, as the court suggests, it will only deepen it

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In today’s Senate Commerce Hearing the White House endorsed support for federal preemption of state AI laws. The fight against preemption did not disappear with the moratorium—in fact, Sen. Cruz introduced a bill today putting us directly on the path to preemption. A thread on its risks below: 🧵

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

congrats to the supreme court for ignoring decades of circuit precedent, twisting logic to avoid textbook definitions (despite being obsessed with, uh, textualism), and undermining the equal protection clause to ensure trans kids can't receive the medical care they deserve

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

the proposed moratorium on state AI laws is dangerous. a welcome chorus (with unlikely allies!) is rising against the ban. our latest in @techpolicypress.bsky.social argues we must use this momentum to demand more accountability from AI firms and protect against weak, industry co-opted regulation

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

this is excellent

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

“We're not interested in discussing whether or not an individual technology like ChatGPT is good. We're asking whether it's good for society that these companies have unaccountable power," says @kate-brennan.bsky.social in @wired.com

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

if you’ve been looking for an all-in-one resource to explain why it’s troubling for tech companies to push AI into every corner of our social, political, and economic lives, you might love our latest report from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social called Artificial Power: ainowinstitute.org/publications...

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Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report

In the aftermath of the “AI boom,” this report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies - and the tech oligarchs that run them - power that goes far beyond their d...

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Bold enforcement remedies are crucial to meet this moment in AI shaped by Big Tech dominance. My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social argues that removing AI divestiture as a remedy in the Google search monopoly case fits the troubling anti-regulatory patterns taking shape around the world (1/2)

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I spoke with @jasonplautz.bsky.social about how essential energy dominance is to this administration's policy of AI boosterism, and the harmful effects this is sure to have on climate and communities:

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404 Media @404media.co · 29/01/2025

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In a new opinion piece for @nytimes.com, AI Now’s Chief AI Scientist @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social and Co-Executive Director @smw.bsky.social warn that AI may threaten, rather than preserve, national security. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/o...

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Opinion | Our Military Is Adopting A.I. Way Too Fast

The military is integrating A.I. into its deadly systems too quickly, and Trump will only accelerate a dangerous situation.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

At a convening of worker advocates in California organized by @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social, @ambakak.bsky.social told @khari.bsky.social, “Labor has been at the forefront of rebalancing of power and asserting that the public has a say in determining how and under what conditions this tech is used."

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I spoke with MIT Tech Review about reviving the failed California AI safety bill SB 1047 in New York and how the bill overlooks material harms AI is posing to people, workers, and the climate right now: (1/3) www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/09/1...

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A New York legislator wants to pick up the pieces of the dead California AI bill

The new bill being drafted in New York aims to regulate advanced AI systems while addressing concerns with the California bill.

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

My statement on the Bipartisan House Task Force Report on AI on @techpolicypress.bsky.social. In one breath the report cautions against material risks posed by large-scale AI, and in the other encourages widespread, uncritical adoption of AI across the economy. www.techpolicy.press/reactions-to...

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Hannah Groch-Begley @grouchybagels.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This piece made me furious. Nurses are asked to *bid* on shifts, offering to work lower and lower wages, and then the app can fail and not pay them at all. We don't have a nursing shortage, we have a shortage of good jobs sane humans are willing to work. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

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Uber for Nursing: How an AI-Powered Gig Model Is Threatening Health Care - Roosevelt Institute

Through original interviews with 29 “gig” nurses and nursing assistants, Katie J. Wells and Funda Ustek Spilda find that on-demand nursing companies encourage nurses to work for less pay, fail to prov...

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Sarah Myers West @smw.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I spoke with @katearonoff.bsky.social about the heedless rush to build computing infrastructure for AI, which hinges on hypothetical economic growth but will leave very real harm to consumers and the climate in its wake: newrepublic.com/article/1894...

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What If Tech Execs Don’t Really Need All These Data Centers?

The rush to build new computing and energy infrastructure for artificial intelligence comes with a lot of unintended consequences—especially if this new infrastructure isn’t actually needed.

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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

What better way to make my Bluesky debut than a great conversation with @alissacooper.bsky.social, @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social, and David Dinielli for the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast on effective remedies in the Google search antitrust case and its implications for generative AI.

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