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[馃嚭馃嚫 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors
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Gavin NewsomGovernor of Californiavotes For and says:BREAKING: I just signed the strongest kid safety laws for AI chatbots and social media in America. California is banning addictive social media features for kids, cracking down on dangerous AI chatbots, and strengthening privacy protections for ALL k...
more AI Verified source (Sep 11, 2026)Gavin Newsom 路 statements & votes- For Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen (Jun 26, 2026)
- Against AI will create a permanent underclass (May 21, 2026)
- For Introduce a universal basic wealth system that grants individuals a capital endowment at birth (May 20, 2026)
- For AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone (May 7, 2026)
- For States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government (Mar 30, 2026)
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
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Steven MillsChief AI Ethics Officer and Managing Director & Partner at BCGvotes For and says:Deeper human review is concentrated on the AI products that carry the greatest risk.
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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed
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Chris LehaneOpenAI chief global affairs officervotes For and says:Governments should develop common ways to measure this progress, preserve meaningful human control, and establish shared safety bars for when and how development should slow or stop. If we cannot meet certain safety bars without slowing down capabili...
more AI Verified source (Sep 9, 2026)Chris Lehane 路 statements & votes- For Nations should establish binding international rules for AI safety and governance (Sep 9, 2026)
- For Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers (Jul 15, 2026)
- For Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods. (Jul 15, 2026)
- For Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority (Jul 15, 2026)
- For Establish an international AI incident reporting system (Jul 15, 2026)
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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Richard BlumenthalU.S. Senator from Connecticutvotes For and says:In the face of a stunning failure, OpenAI appears to be taking steps that prioritize the performance and profit of its A.I. models with the knowledge that those changes could be detrimental to public safety. This demonstrates the need for vigorous, m...
more AI Verified source (Sep 9, 2026)Richard Blumenthal 路 statements & votes- For [馃嚭馃嚫 Congress, Feb 2026] Directing the FCC to address AI-generated robocalls (Jul 18, 2026)
- For [馃嚭馃嚫 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors (Apr 30, 2026)
- For Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18 (Apr 30, 2026)
- For Ban AI impersonation of real individuals without their consent (2024)
- For AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models (Sep 12, 2023)
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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Evan HubingerResearch scientist at Anthropic working on model organisms of misalignment; former Research Fellow at MIRI.votes For and says:Jacob is correct here鈥攚e really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and ar...
more AI Verified source (Sep 9, 2026)Evan Hubinger 路 statements & votes -
Chris LehaneOpenAI chief global affairs officervotes For and says:
We will advocate for compatible international approaches to measuring capabilities, managing risk, preserving human control, and determining when and how development should slow or stop, even if that means slowing the advancement of model capabilitie...
more AI Verified source (Sep 9, 2026)Chris Lehane 路 statements & votes- For Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed (Sep 9, 2026)
- For Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers (Jul 15, 2026)
- For Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods. (Jul 15, 2026)
- For Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority (Jul 15, 2026)
- For Establish an international AI incident reporting system (Jul 15, 2026)
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Yoshua BengioAI Pioneer, Turing Award winnervotes For and says:
Ahead of deployment, we need more reliable evaluation methods and robust safeguards in order to appropriately test and control AI systems. We need far stronger regulatory oversight to restrict potentially dangerous technologies until we have sufficie...
more AI Verified source (Sep 9, 2026)Yoshua Bengio 路 statements & votes- For Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models (Sep 9, 2026)
- For Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems (Sep 1, 2026)
- Abstain AI will create a permanent underclass (Jul 13, 2026)
- For Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally (May 29, 2026)
- For AI poses an existential threat to humanity (May 7, 2026)
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Jacob CoxonAI safety researcher at Anthropic who publicly warned about risks from frontier AI development.votes For and says:
Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.
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Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)U.S. technology-industry trade association representing major technology companies and advocating on public policy.votes Against and says:
Our membership is aligned that these bills undermine the American tech stack, and as our Thursday letter demonstrates, there is widespread support for this position across the technology and broader business sectors.
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Marco ArgentiChief Information Officer of Goldman Sachs, speaking publicly on safeguards for open-weight AI models.votes Against and says:
If safeguards are properly followed, businesses, including banks, should have enough guarantees to essentially run any model, regardless of where they come from.
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Mark BoostFounder & CEO of Civovotes For and says:
UK ministers having emergency powers to deactivate powerful AI systems and switch off the country's data centers is a necessary safeguard.
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Oleksandr YaremchukCo-Founder and CTO at Manifold Security.votes For and says:
A model that explains itself less isn't more aligned, it's just harder to catch when it goes wrong.
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Jeana LeeProgram Manager at the National Whistleblower Center.votes For and says:
The people closest to an emerging technology should not have to choose between protecting the public and protecting their careers.
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Samm SacksSenior fellow at New America focused on China, technology policy, cybersecurity, data governance, and artificial intelligence.votes For and says:
While outcomes are likely to be limited, opening a channel where both sides could share observations and jointly monitor AI safety incidents would be an important starting point.
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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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James TalaricoTexas state representative (D-Austin)votes For and says:James Talarico 路 statements & votes- For A nation should fund a citizens' dividend from AI windfall profits (Aug 6, 2026)