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To bridge growing wealth inequality, that is the lead cause of ongoing racial inequality, we need to embrace the original structure of Baby Bonds and broader structural reforms that move resources toward families who have been locked out of wealth fo... more Unverified source (2026)

The thought of open source AGI being released before we have worked out how to regulate these very powerful AI systems is really very scary, AI Verified source (2024)

These studies, on their own, are insufficient evidence to demonstrate increased marginal societal risk from open foundation models. AI Verified source (2024)

Tools like Mythos will make the best attackers have more powerful tools of the trade, but it won't be handing a nuke to every teenager connected to the internet. AI Verified source (2026)

A sovereign wealth fund would not replace capitalism. It would extend capitalism's upside to people the current structure leaves out. [...] It would invest in society alongside the people already benefiting from these rapidly appreciating assets so t... more AI Verified source (2026)

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

[The proposal to pay all citizens a dividend from AI and semiconductor windfall profits] is a populist idea driven by an obsession with immediate votes and an act that shakes the foundation of the free market economy. AI Verified source (2026)

Congress has a moral obligation to stand with the American people and stop the expansion of these data centers until we have a framework to adequately address the existential harm AI poses to our society. AI Verified source (2026)

My own view, after talking with colleagues in the AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, is that a moratorium would be unenforceable. Instead, I support the proposal made this week by the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to set up a commis... more AI Verified source (2026)

People under the age of 18 should not be able to interact with AI chatbots. These chatbots continue to put the lives and mental health of children at risk, and it is critical for Congress to act immediately. AI Verified source (2026)

Among the most concerning aspects of the bill is its lack of a parental consent option that would allow a child to use these products. [...] Different families may have different views on when a child should or shouldn't access any technology, and th... more AI Verified source (2026)

This is not about stopping innovation, but rather about balancing the great promise of AI with its potential harms. 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)

[A global dividend system would] deliver recurring payouts to individuals, grounded in the principle that every person holds a legitimate claim to a share of the value created by transformative technologies [...] recognizing that modern AI systems ar... more AI Verified source (2025)

A public wealth fund or a robot tax are far heavier political lifts than simply regulating the industry a bit, and they are not just going to emerge as an organic alternative. On that read, this is comms work to provide cover for regulatory nihilism. Unverified source (2026)

What's emerging is not simply a new set of trade agreements, but a new operating model for sovereignty: shared digital infrastructure, interoperable standards, and AI systems tuned to local markets. The countries that do best won't be those that wait... more AI Verified source (2026)

We want to make sure that the world uses the American AI stack. [...] We also want the world to use our AI model. We want all our allies, including India, to leverage our AI infrastructure. Unverified source (2026)

This letter takes us next level. The letter lays out [that] we must have mandatory testing and government approval. AI Verified source (2026)

A [central] problem with regulating frontier AI models is that a new feature emerges in these systems that is not tested, testable. [...] As long as you have this new emergent power, you have deep reasoning, deep capabilities, and they will make mist... more Unverified source (2026)

No, you are not going to discriminate against us, fire us by app just because a machine told you to. AI Verified source (2026)

In 2023, the United States saw countless proposals to ban AI technologies, [...] hiring, [...] law soon must embrace AI; [...] prohibit human intervention [...] Unverified source

Clearly we have a right to do this. [...] An executive order can't block states. You can preempt states under Article 1 powers through congressional legislation on certain issues, but you can't do it through executive order. AI Verified source (2025)

Creating a patchwork of AI laws where 50 different states all have different goals is ultimately going to hurt little tech and startups more than anyone else. AI Verified source (2026)

AI requires industrial mobilisation on a scale not seen in generations: huge investments in energy, semiconductors, computing infrastructure and capital. [...] The US is on track to spend about five times more than Europe on building data centres by ... more AI Verified source (2026)

Proponents of a "EuroStack" argue that Europe must build its own alternative at every level — from chips to cloud to software. But this path represents a €5-trillion mirage. Attempting to decouple from the global tech ecosystem through massive subsid... more AI Verified source (2026)

The bipartisan MATCH Act will close loopholes, create a level playing field for U.S. and allied toolmakers, and ensure the next decade of growth in chip manufacturing – and the jobs that come with it – happens in the United States and allied countrie... more AI Verified source (2026)

Conceding an entire market the size of China probably does not make a lot of strategic sense, so I think that has already largely backfired. Maybe it made sense at the time, but I think the policy really needs to be dynamic and needs to stay with the... more AI Verified source (2026)

Tax revenues globally could be at risk from transformative artificial intelligence (TAI) due to a shift from labor to capital, the concentration of economic profits, and weak international tax coordination. [...] A progressive global corporate profit... more AI Verified source (2026)

Capitalism has also depended on somewhat of a power balance between labor and capital, but if it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. [...] If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now, so I don't... more Unverified source (2026)

Higher taxes on capital income reduce the return on investment, weakening firms' incentives to invest in AI infrastructure, advanced equipment, and productivity-enhancing technologies, which in a global environment where countries such as China are a... more AI Verified source (2026)

[AI] is the greatest challenge that has ever faced humanity. [...] We need to do it tomorrow. We're late already. We should have already done it. AI Verified source (2026)

Computer scientists often aren't good judges of the social and political implications of technology. They are so focused on the AI's mechanisms and are overwhelmed by its success, but they are not very good at placing it into a social and historical ... more Unverified source (2026)