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We know that Big Tech will still try to cut corners on safety and security. [...] Lawmakers need to create a legal framework that makes federal government review of advanced AI models mandatory. AI Verified source (2026)

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

Boards must engineer "legible friction": defined pause points where high-stakes actions require human authorization. Unverified 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)

If we want to keep the sovereignty, the wealth in the European constituencies, we have to own these categories, because otherwise our wealth is moving out of the continent. AI Verified source (2026)

Governments are on track to spend more than $1 trillion by 2030 chasing a sovereign stack, the full range of hardware and capabilities necessary to deploy and operate AI infrastructure. [...] In an interdependent system, the question shifts from how ... more 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)

[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)

Since computational infrastructure is largely open-access, decentralized, and global, regulatory chokepoints are limited. Export controls may delay access to high-performance computing, but they are unlikely to prevent the use of open-source models f... more Verified source (2025)

Right now, companies pay payroll taxes for their workers but get tax breaks for investing in technology—effectively, a tax penalty for hiring human beings and a tax break for buying equipment. [...] Building an economy that works for all of us will r... 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 AI Verified source (2026)

One approach gaining support is to slow the displacement of workers with new taxes on AI services and investments. [...] The challenge these proposals aim to address is real — but trying to hold back the tide is the wrong answer. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

If the frontier labs do achieve superintelligence, their capabilities will become extraordinary. They could launch cyberattacks, wield political influence, or fashion new and exotic weapons to seize power. U.S. policymakers need to ensure that there ... more AI Verified source (2026)

Yet if the federal government feels it has no say or no control, it will lunge and take over the whole thing. We thus want sustainable methods of perpetual interference that a) are actually somewhat useful from a safety perspective, and b) give gover... more AI Verified source (2026)

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 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)

[I propose a D7 of democratic middle powers — Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the UK — including] a Democratic Technology Initiative to shape standards, align export controls and invest jointly in AI, quantum and space. AI Unverifiable 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)

It would create a sovereign wealth fund through a one-time 50 percent tax — not on the profits of OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI and other companies, but paid with something far more valuable than that: the stock. [...] the billions, if not trillions, of dol... more AI Verified source (2026)

Esto de querer que el gobierno de USA se quede con el 50% de las empresas de IA es la cosa más delirante que he escuchado en mucho tiempo. Confío mucho más en Anthropic, Grok, OpenAI y Google que en el payaso de Bernie Sanders. Ni China propone algo ... more Unverified source (2026)

Having an unconditional series of payments from universal basic income would be an effective safety net for unemployed individuals. [...] Essentially, I'm worried that people who benefit from AI, after the fact, are going to say, 'Well, why do we hav... more AI Verified source (2026)

On proposals like Sam Altman's to address AI-driven job losses with a universal basic income: it "won't deal with human dignity." Many people get their self-respect and sense of worth from their jobs, so simply paying everyone an income may solve the... more AI Verified source (2025)

Instead of universal basic income, how about we stop taxing nurses who make $75,000 a year? We don't need to give her universal income yet — let's just stop taking money away from her. AI Verified source (2026)