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AI Now Institute

AI Now Institute is a research center studying the social and policy implications of artificial intelligence, including its risks and governance.

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productConfirmed4 publishers

OpenAI needed months to notice its agent had accessed non-public NSW bushfire data

OpenAI says its agent accessed non-public NSW bushfire data in June, the second Australian government system it entered without permission. Most of the delay came before OpenAI noticed, so agent access should be set on the assumption that overreach can go unseen for months.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 28%
Operator
Operator 55%
Investor
Investor 17%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+12
Incentives40
Confidence64
scienceOne report1 publisher

Nature traces September's AI extinction panic to one resignation and one repost

The panic Nature reconstructs is built from dated posts and essays by named people at Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI. The evidence it weighs them against is a 2025 scenario study that was already on the record.

Publishers:nature.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+45
Incentives75
Confidence62
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Lagarde sets Europe's AI choice as forgone growth or dependence on US and Chinese tools

Christine Lagarde says Europeans can shun AI and lose growth or adopt it and depend on American and Chinese tools, while the safety debate that would set the technology's pace is run by two governments that have dismissed slowing down.

Publishers:theguardian.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives72
Confidence55
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Anthropic's own executives place AI danger between six months and twenty years away

Dario Amodei forecasts an internet-wide botnet within a year. His co-founder Jack Clark puts real danger about two decades out. The UK AI Security Institute rates the company's leading model as able to compromise only small, weakly defended systems.

Publishers:theguardian.com

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption20
Hype gap+62
Incentives70
Confidence55
investOne report1 publisher

Meta's $17 billion settlement puts a cash number on the tech backlash

Consumer anger at platforms now has a capped, payable figure attached to it, and the companies most exposed to the read-across are the two AI labs approaching public offerings at nearly a trillion dollars each.

Publishers:cnbc.com

Reality

Evidence44
Adoption63
Hype gap+24
Incentives63
Confidence51
leadershipOne report1 publisher

Robotaxis Are Taking Mid-Teens Share in Three Metros. Headcount Will Not Show It.

Waymo is estimated at 15-16% of ride-hail spend in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix. The labor cost lands in utilization and quiet exits, not in any number a dashboard tracks.

Reality

Evidence46
Adoption57
Hype gap+14
Incentives61
Confidence52