Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Winning the Race to Hell (with Sarah Myers West and Kate Brennan), 2025.08.04


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Trump’s “AI Action Plan” is his latest attempt to turn AI hype into official national policy. Kate Brennan and Sarah Myers West, of the AI Now Institute, join us to dig through this pile of deregulatory gifts to Big Tech.

Dr. Sarah Myers West is co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, and a former senior advisor on AI for the FTC.

Dr. Kate Brennan is associate director of the AI Now Institute, where she spearheads their policy work, informed by a doctorate in law and years of experience in the tech industry.


References:

Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan


Also referenced:

People’s AI Action Plan


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