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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
548 opinions
Jaydeep SinghGeneral Manager for India at Kaspersky, with over 25 years of enterprise technology and cybersecurity experience.votes For and says:Every AI agent should have its own identity and access to only what it needs. [...] High-impact or irreversible actions should require human approval.
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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Geoffrey HintonGodfather of Deep Learningvotes For and says:Just because you’ve developed a new drug doesn’t mean you can put it on the market. You have to persuade the FDA. That takes about a billion dollars’ worth of work. That is at least the requirement that should be demanded of AI.
AI Verified source (Oct 16, 2026)Geoffrey Hinton · statements & votes- For AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence (Sep 24, 2026)
- For AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access (Sep 18, 2026)
- For Slow down AI development (Sep 14, 2026)
- For AIs understand (Jun 3, 2026)
- For AI might become conscious (Jun 3, 2026)
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AI will create more jobs than it destroys
511 opinions
Elton ChanCo-founder of Second Talent, a company connecting global tech leaders with AI-native engineering talent across Asia.abstains and says:I don’t think we can say yet whether AI will create more jobs than it removes.
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Yvette D. ClarkeU.S. Representative from New Yorkvotes For and says:
As generative AI technologies continue to evolve, clear disclosure standards to preserve transparency are essential to civic engagement. Unfortunately, Congress has failed to keep up the pace with this rapidly advancing technology, leaving voters vul...
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Slow down AI development
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Pragya MisraHead of Strategy & Global Affairs, India at OpenAI; public-policy and AI-governance leader.votes For and says:We have slowed down reinforcement learning and training runs because we do believe that safety should be of utmost priority. Of course, we want to hit AGI as soon as possible and we want to get there first. But we also want to make sure that AGI bene...
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Ban autonomous lethal weapons
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Cordula DroegeDirector of International Law, Movement and Partnerships at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).votes Against and says:The ICRC has called for legally binding rules that would: Prohibit those autonomous weapons that pose the greatest threat, namely: “Unpredictable” autonomous weapons, whose effects cannot be sufficiently understood, predicted and explained; and auton...
more AI Verified source (Oct 15, 2026)Cordula Droege · statements & votes -
Cordula DroegeDirector of International Law, Movement and Partnerships at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).votes For and says:
States have a responsibility – to their own populations, and to those in other states who will face the consequences of the proliferation and use of AI-enabled weapons and by conflict escalation – to set clear limits. A company cannot determine what ...
more AI Verified source (Oct 15, 2026)Cordula Droege · statements & votes- Against Ban autonomous lethal weapons (Oct 15, 2026)
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Guillaume PrincenAnthropic's head of international.votes For and says:
We need to be really careful with open-source on safety. I can't talk for open models. But by definition, there's more risk with them.
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Rashida TlaibU.S. Representative, Michiganvotes For and says:
We’re here today to tell Flock to get out of our communities. They’re in our neighborhoods right now, and the federal government is sending millions of dollars to states, cities, and police departments to fund systems of mass surveillance, like Flock...
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Theo BearmanFrontier-security researcher at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy and former UK government AI policy lead.votes For and says:
Embedded evaluators are independent external experts placed within frontier AI companies to provide ongoing assessments and validation of a company’s safety, security, and operational systems, practices, and claims. [...] Contracts should contain spe...
more AI Verified source (Oct 13, 2026)Theo Bearman · statements & votes- For AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access (Oct 13, 2026)
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Ben AffleckAmerican actor, filmmaker, and co-founder of the AI filmmaking company InterPositive.votes For and says:
One of the best tools we have to ensure that is that, like, if you have a company that hurts people, you’re liable for that.
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Theo BearmanFrontier-security researcher at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy and former UK government AI policy lead.votes For and says:
Embedded evaluators are independent external experts placed within frontier AI companies to provide ongoing assessments and validation of a company’s safety, security, and operational systems, practices, and claims. [...] As frontier AI companies beg...
more AI Verified source (Oct 13, 2026)Theo Bearman · statements & votes- For Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers (Oct 13, 2026)
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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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GoogleSearch and advertising companyvotes For and says:Supporting mass surveillance or utilizing facial recognition and biometric technologies for targeted tracking across platforms without consent.
AI Verified source (Oct 12, 2026)Google · statements & votes- For Build artificial general intelligence (Jul 14, 2026)
- For [🇺🇸 Congress, Mar 2025] Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates (Jul 9, 2026)
- For Grant individuals the right to opt out of being included in AI training data (Jul 6, 2026)
- For Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority (Jun 2026)
- For [🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors (Jun 2026)
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Last week
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Bernard MontelEMEA Field CTO at Tenable and cybersecurity strategist with over 20 years of industry experience.votes Against and says:
Either way, an AI agent is an automated tool, not a legal entity, so accountability always lands on the human administrators who configured its permissions.
AI Verified source (Oct 11, 2026)Bernard Montel · statements & votes -
AI might become conscious
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Shelly KaganClark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, specializing in ethics and moral philosophy.votes For and says:I think we’ve got the beginnings of a pretty good story, because we can already build machines that can represent environments. [...] If that’s what you mean by consciousness—having beliefs, having desires, being able to report what those beliefs and...
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