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[What] was frightening about this demonstration was how readily available some of this content or software is on kind of the black market right now, and how it can be weaponized and used to manipulate people, destroy lives and build weapons of mass d... more AI Unverifiable source (2026)

In a time dominated by open-weight biological AI models developed across the globe, limiting access to sensitive pathogen data to legitimate researchers might be one of the most promising avenues for risk reduction. AI Verified source (2026)

AI is just an information processing and retrieval system akin to a search engine, which can be used in many ways. [...] The fact that criminals use them is a corollary of what AI models are: namely, tools. Unverified source (2026)

In my mind, I thought it [artificial superintelligence] was coming in four years instead of 10 years. Now, I say it's coming in the next two years. Unverified source (2026)

Until some company or scientist says ‘Here’s the proof! We can definitely have a safety mechanism that can scale to any level of intelligence,’ I don’t think we should be developing those general superintelligences. We can get most of the benefits w... more AI Verified source (2024)

Plot the same improvements on a linear y-axis and you get steady incremental gains, impressive but not the hockey stick that triggered the panic. [...] We don't have evidence that Mythos is actually an important step towards broad superintelligence. AI Verified source (2026)

Large frontier developers should annually retain an independent third party to audit compliance with frontier safety requirements. AI Verified source (2026)

Finally, it’s not clear how well some of the act’s provisions reflect the current state of the AI ecosystem. The act demands that labs hire an independent third party to complete an annual audit of their protocols to ensure compliance with the act. T... more AI Verified source (2025)

[Trump's AI executive order] continues to allow companies to release powerful models to the public without undergoing meaningful evaluation or review. AI Verified source (2026)

[The executive order] expressly forbids the creation of a new licensing, preclearance, or permitting regime. AI Verified source (2026)

Rather than pushing incidents under the carpet, this incentivizes sharing and coordination between companies and the federal government. AI Verified source (2026)

If you have to report to 50 different state regulators at 50 different times with 50 different definitions, it's extremely onerous. And it's going to slow down innovation, and it's going to hinder our progress in the AI race. AI Verified source (2025)

The Services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. If we discover that minors under the age of 18 are using the Apps, we will promptly block their access and delete their account. AI Verified source (2025)

AI has incredible potential to transform society. At the same time, of course, there are risks that we must mitigate as a state, especially to young people. So I speak partly as a governor, but also as the father of teenage twins who grapple with thi... more AI Verified source (2026)

We want to make sure that kids are okay in the space. But if a kid or a group of kids, or a generation, let's say, is unable to access these types of tools now as they progress exponentially, you're essentially cutting off a huge benefit for them and... more AI Verified source (2026)

The Services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. If we discover that minors under the age of 18 are using the Apps, we will promptly block their access and delete their account. AI Verified source (2025)

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves. AI Verified source (2026)

We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure. [...] Europe has the talent, the research excellence, the industrial base and the single market. Together, we ... more AI Verified source (2026)

By pairing a strict mandate with unrealistic standards that the EU itself cannot meet, the Commission is effectively giving national capitals carte blanche to shut out trusted global vendors from every major technology-producing nation outside the Un... more AI Verified source (2026)

Our most advanced AI technologies must be kept out of the hands of adversaries like Communist China. Congress should ensure that America keeps our edge in the AI race. AI Verified source (2026)

The bill is an attempt to reclaim congressional agency over those choices. Unverified source (2026)

President Trumps authority is clear. The Commander in Chief has ultimate authority on foreign affairs. Democrats and their Deep State partners are purposefully misleading House Republicans to strip him of this authority... America must win the AI Col... more Unverified source (2026)

Boards must engineer "legible friction": defined pause points where high-stakes actions require human authorization. AI Verified source (2026)

Objective-driven AI systems will be safe and will remain under our control, because we set their objectives and guardrails and they can't deviate from them. Agentic systems can plan action sequences to accomplish a task, subject to safety guardrails ... more Unverified source (2025)

Oh, it certainly could, yes. I think anybody who said that there's no way it'll lead to the extinction of humans just isn't facing reality. AI Verified source (2026)

Scaring people by saying non-sensical things which are not going to happen like AI is an existential threat to humanity, is ridiculous. AI Verified source (2026)

Right now, we're seeing AI used as a tool to influence our democracy. We need rules of the road in place to stop the use of fraudulent AI-generated content in campaign ads. [...] This commonsense, bipartisan legislation would update our laws to prohi... more AI Verified source (2025)

A media environment with more false and deceptive information is not a good thing for our society, but it is not the government's job to fix it. [...] Let's trust the American people, not the government, to decide for themselves how AI should be used... more AI Verified source (2026)

People are getting hurt, parents are getting deceived, and they need to pay for it. AI Verified source (2026)

We support approaches like this because they focus on what matters most: Reducing the risk of serious harm from the most advanced AI systems while still allowing this technology to get into the hands of the people and businesses — small and big — of ... more AI Verified source (2026)

We will end up in a very concentrated world where there's like one to five giant networks of data centres owned by one to five companies, possibly in coordination with their governments. [...] If you've only got one to five companies and they each ha... more AI Verified source (2026)

Everybody, even Google, seems to be treating AI as if it were some kind of winner take all competition like web search was [...]. But everybody is building essentially the same technical solution with essentially the same data, so there is no moat. I... more AI Verified source (2026)

I would go farther. I think we ought to enact my legislation that I have with Senator [Richard] Blumenthal that would make that sort of reporting and monitoring mandatory. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

According to the proposed rule, a covered US person will be required to provide quarterly reports to BIS if the US person “engages in, or plans, within six months, to engage in ‘applicable activities.’” “Applicable activities” include: “Conducting a... more Unverified source (2024)