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Shontel BrownU.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district.votes For and says:
We need labels on AI-generated election content and we need to hold accountable those who use AI to knowingly spread false information. Pairing the latest technology with old-school dirty tricks is a dangerous combination. I’m proud to introduce the ...
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Pietro ParolinCardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See and senior Vatican diplomat.votes For and says:
“The failure or limited contribution of law in governing the digital sphere and algorithms makes the ‘culture of power’ evident” in international relations. It is therefore necessary to “develop rules that make it possible to govern the phenomenon of...
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Slow down AI development
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Design It For UsYouth-led coalition advocating responsible technology policy and protections for young people.votes For and says:The largest AI companies should slow down the pace of development.
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Yesterday
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
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Robin QiuPenn State Professor of Information Science and editor-in-chief of Digital Transformation and Society.votes For and says:Human-in-Command (HIC) Governance: Complying with international regulatory demands for meaningful human monitoring, the strategic zenith of AI governance requires humans to act as architects rather than tactical micromanagers. Under the HIC model, op...
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Earlier this week
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Chuck SchumerU.S. Senate Majority Leadervotes For and says:
I urge the Commission to deny Club for Growth’s request to permit noncommercial political calls to wireless numbers using artificial or prerecorded voices, including AI-generated voices, without prior express consent. Removing that safeguard would in...
more AI Verified source (Oct 19, 2026)Chuck Schumer · statements & votes- For [🇺🇸 Congress, Jan 2026] Giving Congress power to block AI chip exports to adversaries (Apr 8, 2026)
- Abstain AI will create more jobs than it destroys (Apr 2026)
- For Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable (Jun 21, 2023)
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Dialog LabAI-powered workplace conversation-readiness platform that does not make employment decisions.votes For and says:
Dialog Lab does not generate, recommend, or support decisions involving any of the following: [...] Hiring decisions. Requests of this kind are declined, and users are redirected to the appropriate human review pathway.
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Last week
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Jay ClaytonDirector of National Intelligence; former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.votes For and says:
Well, let me be clear. Hacking of a government website, hacking of a private sector website — if your product does that, you are responsible.
AI Verified source (Oct 18, 2026)Jay Clayton · statements & votes- Against Slow down AI development (Oct 5, 2026)
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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Zofishan UmairPakistani journalist and columnist writing for Dawn, including commentary on technology and society.votes For and says:Turns out, we were being unnecessarily pessimistic. Even though the planet is on fire, extreme temperatures will not be the ones to knock us out of the evolutionary game. (So much for our soggy paper straws.) Instead, we’ve decided to build something...
more AI Verified source (Oct 18, 2026)Zofishan Umair · statements & votes- For Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment (Oct 18, 2026)
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Zofishan UmairPakistani journalist and columnist writing for Dawn, including commentary on technology and society.votes For and says:
Which is why US lawmakers put forward legislation, dubbed the ‘Kill Switch Act’, which would require companies to have a way to shut down problematic AI tools. Tragically, the proposal was quickly shot down.
AI Verified source (Oct 18, 2026)Zofishan Umair · statements & votes- For AI poses an existential threat to humanity (Oct 18, 2026)
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AI will create more jobs than it destroys
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Vivian A. AtudPhD economist, CEO of the Global Transformation Forum, and AI governance advisor.votes For and says:The aggregate outcome of AI's impact on global employment is likely net positive over the long term.
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Cloud Security Alliance AI Safety InitiativeInitiative of the Cloud Security Alliance focused on AI safety, security, and governance.votes For and says:
Third, embedding addresses a real information problem. Frontier AI risk assessment depends on non-public facts such as training details, internal monitoring data, and incident records. An evaluator that can see only what the developer chooses to send...
more AI Verified source (Oct 17, 2026)Cloud Security Alliance AI Safety Initiative · statements & votes- For Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers (May 25, 2026)
- For The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity (May 9, 2026)
- For Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority (Mar 27, 2026)
- For Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains (Mar 22, 2026)
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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 alignment is solvable
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Vanessa KosoyResearch Lead at CORAL, Director of AI research at ALTER, and a PhD student at the Technion.votes For and says:How computational agent theory leads to a solution of the technical alignment problem, something that requires a major rethinking of how we design AI systems.
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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...
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Kar Mun Nicole WongAI governance researcher; Yale School of Management and Jackson School of Global Affairs alumna.votes For and says:
On biological capabilities, independent evaluator SecureBio found that Kimi K3 was roughly comparable to closed models from about eight months earlier. When prompted with questions designed to elicit dangerous biological information, the model declin...
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