YouCongress Polls

While generative AI has expanded the scope for automation, its primary effect is democratizing expertise, enabling more people to perform knowledge work with less training. [...] AI is positioned to be a massive engine for job creation rather than a ... more Unverified source (2026)

People have the wrong intuition when they say that if AI can do my job for ten dollars an hour, then my wage falls to ten dollars and my life is terrible. A world where AI can do research or teaching at that cost is a world where AI is extremely capa... more Unverified source (2026)

AI will make a particularly large difference in some routine white-collar jobs. [...] We do not have the macro or micro framework for managing that kind of displacement. Unverified source (2026)

[These companies are] consolidating a historic amount of economic and political power, terraforming our earth, reshaping our geopolitics. Unverified source (2026)

I would like to see a CERN for AI [...] where all the top scientists come together and see whether they can make a super intelligence. And, if they can, they contain it into a system where it can't just go out and persuade people to let it run the wo... more Unverified source (2026)

To mitigate the “race to God-like AI,” Ian Hogarth—chair of the U.K. AI Safety Institute—proposed an “Island model,” in which a joint international lab performs research on superintelligence in a highly secure facility. An essential part of this pro... more Unverified source (2024)

So the the prototypical situation I'm imagining here is you know there's a kind of one ai project, which is you know somewhat ahead of the others, and maybe it it goes through intelligence explosion, whereas which by which I mean kind of AI can autom... more Unverified source

The lack of control of AI is one of the things that has been overhyped. [...] We can't control AI exactly. And it will sometimes be buffeted around by random factors. But with the right engineering, we can control them well enough for most applicatio... more Unverified source (2026)

[The companies are] deadly serious about building machines that can outperform humans at everything, and [...] deadly serious that they don't know if they'll be able to control the machines they create. Unverified source (2026)

AI leaders keep saying UBI is necessary. This pledge asks them to prove it. [...] We all deserve a share of what [AI] makes possible. Unverified source (2026)

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

I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence. Unverified source (2026)

Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia... more Unverified source (2026)

The biggest problem is that not only do they have nondisclosure agreements, they also have a mandatory arbitration clause, which means disputes never see the light of day. Unverified source (2026)

I think it's now. I think we've achieved AGI. [...] It is not out of the question that a Claude [model] was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden, you know, a few billion people used for 50 cents, and then it ... more Unverified source (2026)

This scale is unnecessary. You do not need this scale of AI and compute to realize the benefits. Indeed, if we really want AI to be broadly beneficial, we urgently need to shift away from this approach. [...] The kinds of AI systems that dominate our... more Unverified source (2026)

One might think that, given the very real threat to humanity, countries might come together to regulate this technology through an international treaty, like we did with nuclear weapons at the height of the Cold War. [...] We need international coope... more Unverified source (2026)

The question that people are debating is whether it makes sense to regulate research and development of AI. And I don't think it does. Unverified source (2023)

I think this is crazy... like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging, oh yeah, Boeing made the case. Unverified source (2026)

coerced or courted some countries to adopt export restrictions against China. [...] Such bullying acts seriously violate market principles and the international trade order Unverified source (2023)

We're studying, possibly an executive order to give a clear roadmap to everybody about how this is going to go and how future AIs that also potentially create vulnerabilities should go through a process so that they're released to the wild after they... more Unverified 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)

All of us, including the government, are aligned on humans in the loop, and the technology not being used for mass surveillance in a way that contradicts human rights. Unverified source (2026)

The immediate danger is not that machines will act without human oversight; it is that human overseers have no idea what the machines are actually "thinking." State-of-the-art AI systems are essentially "black boxes." We know the inputs and outputs, ... more Unverified source (2026)

Instead of putting citizens, humans, in the loop of AI, we need to take them out and put AI into the loop of humanity. Treating AI as an infrastructure for human coordination is more fast, fair, and fun than the colonial alternative. Unverified source (2026)

Increasingly complex AI cases require juries of experts and professional peers rather than a random selection of citizens. Unverified source (2023)

The GUARD Act is a critical step to draw lines in the sand with Big Tech and ensure that minors are protected from chatbots that mimic romantic and social companionship. Unverified source (2026)

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

I think it will be increasingly important for AI companies to have a policy of getting external feedback on the risks posed by their deployments, and in particular having some external accountability on whether they have adequate evidence to support ... more Unverified 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 Unverified source (2025)