Amna Nawaz

AI position

No x-risk mention

Her AI segments focus on near-term harms (deepfakes, bias, labor displacement, policy/regulation) rather than existential risk; no found instance of her engaging with x-risk framing specifically.

Why influential

Controls high-visibility interviews and breaking-news framing that officials and campaigns use to reach or reassure broad audiences. Primary policy lanes: national politics; immigration; foreign affairs; policy.

Who pays attention

Policy professionals, educators, civil servants, nonprofits, diplomats and public-media audiences

Work samples

• How to fight AI slop, according to Hany Farid

  Mar 3, 2026 · podcast

  Amna Nawaz interviews digital forensics expert Hany Farid on AI misinformation and deepfakes.

• What's in Trump's new AI policy and why it matters

  Jul 23, 2025 · broadcast

  Nawaz interviews Washington Post tech reporter Will Oremus on Trump's AI executive orders.

• 'The New Age of Sexism' explores how misogyny is replicated in AI and emerging tech

  Sep 10, 2025 · broadcast

  Nawaz interviews author Laura Bates on gendered harms of AI, including deepfake pornography.

• Nonprofit aims to help displaced workers as businesses adopt artificial intelligence

  Jan 1, 2025 · broadcast

  Segment on RAISE US, a bipartisan nonprofit preparing workers for AI-driven labor disruption.

• Rapid AI advancements spark wonder and concern

  Jan 1, 2024 · broadcast

  Nawaz interviews Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge and host of Decoder, on AI's trajectory.

AI-world contacts

• Hany Farid — Digital forensics / deepfake detection expert, UC Berkeley

  • Wrote aboutdirectness unclassified — Interviewed by Amna Nawaz on PBS News Hour's podcast about AI-generated misinformation and deepfakes (2026-03-03).