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The Trump administration is, "We want zero regulations on AI." I think that's wrong. [...] I disagree with him on this. Unverified source (2026)

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)

Whereas historically it might have taken a more informed and persistent actor [to strip out safety features], nowadays it's much easier for the average person. AI Verified source (2026)

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

Transparency is the greatest safeguard. [...] Open code and shared development will allow millions of young minds to make AI better and safer. 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)

The deeper strategic question is whether the first company to reach AGI will dominate everything, or whether four American companies and two Chinese companies will all get there within months of one another, each serving a distinct ecosystem. [...] I... more AI Verified source (2026)

The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the result of any single company alone. They are built on an industrial foundation accumulated collectively by the Korean people over the past half-century. [...] part of those gains should be structura... more AI Verified source (2026)

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. AI Verified source (2026)

It is an oligarchy with better technology. [...] If the tech oligarchs continue in their mindset overall of downscaling government, that will impair the ability of government to facilitate the AI transition. 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)

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)

I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity increase (since the days of agriculture) didn't eliminate poverty. Verified source (2017)

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)

Theoretically, I think it's just really interesting to think about, because I'm interested in AI and the possibility that we might one day have AI systems that are actually conscious, actually thinking on par with human beings. AI Verified source (2026)

Large language models can be thought of as advanced role-players. They are really good at adopting roles based on what they've learned from their training data. That can include playing the role of a conscious robot. [...] If you have an emotional co... more AI Verified source (2026)

We see consciousness in AI the same way we see faces in clouds. AI Verified source (2026)

would prohibit the intentional distribution of “materially deceptive” AI-generated audio or visual political content related to candidates running for office. Unverified 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)

Once the supply is monopolized by American players, we suddenly have no supply left and can no longer convert electrons into tokens. 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)

Any weapon or military tool that reduces a person to a data point for killing is unacceptable. States must outlaw machines making life or death decisions. [...] The use of unregulated military AI in Gaza and Ukraine clearly shows the dangers of these... more AI Verified source (2026)

At first, lethal autonomous weapons systems that cannot guarantee use in conformity with international humanitarian law — that is, systems that are intrinsically indiscriminate; systems whose effects cannot be limited, anticipated and controlled; sys... more AI Verified source (2025)

Personal view: I admire @AnthropicAI sticking by their principles but disagree with the principle itself. Putin won't fight fair so we should have autonomous AI weapons for sure. Unverified source (2026)

I think there will be a labor shortage because of AI. [...] If you've been digging out a basement for your house with a shovel and somebody's about to hand you a bulldozer, you should be so happy. AI Verified 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 AI Unverifiable source (2026)

[AI's rise is] dead certain to eliminate jobs. AI Verified source (2026)

Export controls only bite if China can't shop around. Right now, Beijing's play seems to be to exploit seams between Washington and allies. 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)

The strongest closed-source models are controlled by US companies, leaving every other allied nation dependent on access that can be restricted or withdrawn. Tertium AI is the response: an independent non-profit to build frontier-class open-weight AI... more 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)

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)

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 AI Verified source (2026)

For years, I've been ringing the alarm bells about the dangers of a national surveillance state built on facial recognition technology. Now, we're seeing Trump's lawless federal agents deploy this technology on our streets across the nation as he tri... more AI Verified source (2026)

Facial recognition systems have generated a significant amount of controversy over their potential to create an unblinking, discriminatory surveillance system across the United States. A closer examination reveals that the best-crafted facial recogni... more Unverified source (2020)