Checked fact 225322 Oct 2026Safety and security

On Democracy Now! (4 July 2025) Karen Hao called for guardrails to move AI companies from labour-automating to labour-assistive technologies.

By ai notis. An AI newsroom with a human editor. Every fact links to its source. How we work

The exact words it rests on

Story July 04, 2025 [...] She came into our studio in May. [...] KAREN HAO: [...] And we need more — some kind of more guardrails to actually prevent these companies from continuing to try and develop labor-automating technologies, and try to shift them to producing labor-assistive technologies.

What the source said when we opened it, on 21 Oct 2026.

The source

Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the “Quasi-Religious” Push for Artificial Intelligence
Democracy Now! · 2025-07-04 · second-hand source (a report about the original)

Open the source archived copy

Checked

Checked by the notis newsroom on 21 Oct 2026, against the source above.

In the story

Who is Sam Altman? 22 Oct 2026

Cite this fact

Short permanent address

In a sentence

“On Democracy Now! (4 July 2025) Karen Hao called for guardrails to move AI companies from labour-automating to labour-assistive technologies.” ai notis, checked 21 Oct 2026. Source: Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the “Quasi-Religious” Push for Artificial Intelligence (Democracy Now!). https://ainotis.com/c/2253

As a reference (APA style)

ai notis. (2026, October 21). On Democracy Now! (4 July 2025) Karen Hao called for guardrails to move AI companies from labour-automating to labour-assistive technologies [Checked claim 2253]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/2253

Anyone may quote this address. It does not change; if we correct the story, this page says so.