person

Amba Kak

Co-director of the AI Now Institute

Legal scholar who co-directs the AI Now Institute. Argues civil-society-led AI governance is the only path that will not rubber-stamp incumbents.

current Co-Executive Director, AI Now Institute

@ambaonadventure

Strategy positions

Governance firstendorses

Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimes

Argues AI governance is primarily a political-economy problem and that reform must go beyond procedural 'safety' framings.

AI policy has been captured by the industry being regulated. The question is who governs the governors.

¶ articleAI Now Institute· AI Now Institute· 2023· loose paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

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Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Amba Kak's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Abeba Birhane
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Mozilla Foundation senior advisor; AI ethics researcher
Adam Tooze
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Columbia historian; Chartbook newsletter
Adrian Weller
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Cambridge professor; Alan Turing Institute fellow
Adrienne LaFrance
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The Atlantic executive editor; technology critic
Adrienne Williams
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Former Amazon warehouse worker; AI labour activist
Akash Wasil
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Encode Justice; AI policy advocate

Record last updated 2026-04-24.