YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

Implement mandatory human review and approval checkpoints for high-impact or irreversible actions (e.g., large-value transactions, significant policy changes, customer-facing advice with financial implications). The agent should present its proposed ...

Agentic AI requires a different model, one where leadership defines direction, systems enforce boundaries, and accountability is explicit.

Post-hoc explanations have no guarantee of being faithful, because the model was never trained to make them valid. The alternative is to make interpretability part of the training contract.

We have a very natural instinct to say: we want as much interpretability as possible. One of the sci-fi worry cases is that agents start speaking in languages to each other that we don't understand. [...] I bet there are ways to define boundaries tha...

[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option;

Pretraining has already produced models with strong semantic competence: they can understand natural language, extract facts, draft arguments, and explain complex materials.

Employing these frameworks implies neither that machines are genuinely thinking nor that they possess understanding—just as evolutionary game theorists could analyze evolutionary dynamics by treating organisms as if they were rational decision-makers...

In essence, the number of people necessary to make large corporations function is going to be dramatically reduced.

This is more than a learning curve. It’s a structural challenge for individuals, employers and entire industries — one that risks widening inequalities if left unaddressed.

AI adoption remains focused on productivity and revenue gains, not explicitly on head count reduction. Among enterprise AI objectives, process efficiency (64%) and employee productivity (59%) are much more commonly prioritized than head count reducti...

Following the Alaska Permanent Fund and Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund models, governments must acquire equity stakes in AI infrastructure companies — creating funds whose dividends are distributed to citizens. AI training data was generated by the ...

Rather than doing something immediately, it would be better first to have academic research and examination, and then apply the scholarly findings to reality. It is an issue that, in the later legislative process, must win public consensus and fully ...

Going one step further from the performance bonus demands and strikes by vested-interest unions at major companies such as SK hynix and Samsung Electronics, the Blue House policy chief is now arguing for a 'corporate profit distribution system' that ...

Achieving [human-level AGI] would have profound and far-reaching impacts on human society. ... AI progress might continue to accelerate over the next years. This could imply that the image of a single transformative step change, caused by the introdu...

Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.

This creates what we call the “Abundance Flywheel”: commit compute to a hard problem, focus R&D until it clears, watch the domain collapse from artisanal craft to industrial utility, capture the surplus, and reinvest it into the next target. Repeat u...

AI could make goods and services cheaper than ever, raising hopes for a new age of abundance where scarcity plays a smaller role in human life.

Using practical theories tested in the real world across different circumstances—as opposed to opinions or analyses based on data that does not yet exist—suggests there may be important twists ahead that should lead us to question whether a “world of...

By obtaining ISO 42001 certification, CallRail furthers its commitment to trust, providing independent validation that its AI systems are built, deployed, and monitored within a rigorous framework of ethical guardrails, continuous risk assessment, an...

This bill contains a critically flawed mandatory third-party audit requirement that creates an impossible compliance obligation on an unrealistic timeline.

FDD Action supports the MATCH Act, which focuses on strengthening and aligning export controls on semiconductor manufacturing equipment. These tools are essential to protecting U.S. technological leadership and national security. By closing gaps and ...

China consistently opposes any practice of overstretching the concept of national security and abusing export controls.

Congress could consider passing legislation to protect security whistleblowers in the AI industry from retaliation by AI companies.

Connecticut already has strong whistleblower laws that protect employees from retaliation. [...] creating a separate, AI-specific whistleblower regime could lead to confusion, duplication, and unintended consequences for employers operating in highly...

There should be no licenses granted for advanced AI chips to China, period. To that end, the AI Overwatch Act offers a sound framework: mandatory congressional notification before any such export is approved, verifiable safeguards preventing military...

They would have to limit everything.

That assumption is unrealistic in the world of AI-driven automation and open-source agent ecosystems.

Restricting access to a dual-use AI model is precautionary only if it delays harmful actors more than defenders. That condition varies across actors: a state agency or organized criminal group may obtain a substitute through theft, distillation, inte...

We acknowledge it is worth monitoring the security implications of open source models that may reach frontier capabilities. But for the most part, the transparency that is inherent to open source makes them safer and more secure, because more enginee...

AI companions — including those products that allow or even cater to younger users — should not be used by anyone under the age of 18 years.

Children have given us a clear diagnosis of the problem. They aren't asking us to block AI innovation, but it shouldn't be a case of cleaning up the mess after harm has happened either.

No company should deploy an AI system accessible to children without child-specific safety testing and independent oversight.

It is insufficient to leave monitoring solely to individual business operators; the development of public infrastructure for cross-industry sharing and analysis of accident and near-miss information should be considered. Coordination with internation...

Rather than creating entirely new channels, policymakers should focus on ensuring that existing channels can effectively incorporate information related to frontier models and agents. Building on trusted relationships will be faster and more effectiv...

Corporate power extends beyond lobbying, manifesting as infrastructural and platform power as governments and societies become increasingly dependent on these critical functions.