[Recently] the AI Now Institute, a think tank that studies the social implications of artificial intelligence, published a sweeping report on the current AI landscape, detailing the way power is becoming concentrated in a handful of dominant companies that have shaped narratives about the technology to their own advantage.
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AI Now is urging advocacy and research groups to connect AI-related issues to broader economic concerns, such as job security and the future of work. … The authors see an opportunity for workers to resist how AI is being deployed and push back against tech-industry talking points that frame outcomes like widespread job loss as inevitable.
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“We’re not interested in discussing whether or not an individual technology like ChatGPT is good,” says Kate Brennan, an associate director at AI Now and another coauthor of the report. “We’re asking whether it’s good for society that these companies have unaccountable power,” which can be entirely compatible with “believing that certain products are good and interesting and exciting.”
