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Big Tech has built a massive surveillance economy to track, package and sell deeply detailed information about our movements, purchases, preferences, and relationships. Now, out of control federal agencies are buying this data to evade constitutional...

When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...

As AIs grow more autonomous and dangerous, the government must have the power to shut them down when they threaten national security. The AI Kill Switch Act gives the U.S. government powers to do just that: a common sense action that Americans overwh...

Industry discourse often presents “Human-in-the-Loop” as the ultimate safeguard for AI deployment, yet this is a dangerous fallacy in high-velocity agentic systems.

The vote marks an important step in the EU’s internal procedure for concluding the Framework Convention and reflects institutional support for the first international legally binding treaty addressing artificial intelligence in the context of human r...

The U.S. and China won’t move in lockstep on AI safety, and forging mutually binding agreements with real teeth is probably not possible right now.

FOR the purpose of establishing the Universal Basic Income for Transition–Age Youth Program in the Department of Human Services; providing that payments made under the Program may not be considered income or resources for purposes of determining elig...

Universal basic income is a policy prescription that those people calling for it tended to believe in years earlier, before they had even heard of AI, and now it fits this scenario. I do not know what the outcomes and therefore the mitigations of AI ...

We oppose New York State instituting a Universal Basic Income.

de divulgação ou compartilhamento de conteúdo sintético gerado ou modificado por inteligência artificial ou por tecnologia equivalente, em desacordo com as regras de rotulagem ou incidente nas vedações previstas na resolução

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...

The Alliance for a Better Future (ABF) strongly supports the House introduction of the GUARD Act and commends Reps. Moore and Foushee for their focus on this critical issue.

Children have given us a clear diagnosis of the problem. They aren't asking us to block AI innovation, but it shouldn't be a case of cleaning up the mess after harm has happened either.

No company should deploy an AI system accessible to children without child-specific safety testing and independent oversight.

The No Robot Bosses Act prohibits employers from predominantly relying on automated decision systems to make workplace decisions, mandates pre-deployment assessments and transparency about the use of automated decision systems, gives workers the righ...

Hence, under the overarching ambit of the National AI Council and together with tripartite partners, we are studying the use of AI tools by businesses and its impact on employment, before deciding the most appropriate approach for Singapore.

The requirement of human review is one of the most burdensome compliance elements for employers, particularly in comparison to states that allow alternative processes rather than human review.

That kind of test-gaming, if unfixed, could lead to full-blown AI doom scenarios in the future.

So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...

Those extreme risks are still science fiction. So these speeches are largely diversions, very deliberately crafted.

You can’t patch a released, open-weight model. This is the property that breaks the assumptions of the prior model of responsible disclosure. Open-source software can be patched in place; a deployer updates and the hazard closes. An open-weight model...

It is unquestionably both. We can use the frontier models but also open weight models to prove a solution which gives defenders powerful capabilities and on their terms.

When a frontier model is attacking you and moving laterally inside your infrastructure, defenders need wide access to near-frontier tools within hours or even minutes, rather than being pointed toward a closed-door platform.

When the cost of providing access to AI models conflicts with corporate profit concerns, the U.S. government should step in by providing targeted funding and facilitating cross-lab coordination and efficiency. The U.S. government should also facilita...

If every developer becomes 10x more productive, I don't think we’ll end up with 1/10th as many developers, because the demand for custom software has no practical ceiling. Instead, the number of people who develop software will grow massively.

We all know generative AI will destroy certain jobs and will create new jobs.

Businesses that report using AI to improve business operations are more likely to report reductions in workforce headcount than those using AI for other purposes.

If alignment is framed only as a technical problem, the solutions will remain in the hands of technical elites. But if we recognise it as a question of power and justice, then alignment becomes a collective responsibility—one that demands democratic ...

Under the AI Act, advanced AI models must be evaluated, and mitigation measures carefully assessed, before the models are placed on the EU market. This new capacity will contribute to the regulatory function of the AI Office by strengthening third-pa...

For the most advanced frontier AI models, an independent, federally overseen, industry-backed organization could set safety standards and verify independent, voluntary audits, similar to how other critical sectors are managed.

We cannot afford to depend on others for the technologies that keep our hospitals running, our energy grids stable and our services secure. This is about protecting our citizens, defending our interests and making our own choices. Europe has the tale...

The EU’s ambition to triple data centre capacity is the right one. But the way to achieve that goal is by attracting investment, not shutting it out.

Export compliance cannot rely solely on documentation and trust-based declarations. It requires mechanisms that extend oversight beyond the point of sale.

Enacting the current draft of the Chip Security Act (CSA) would erode trust and endanger the Administration’s vision to diffuse U.S. AI technology. Specifically, burdensome rules on U.S. companies not required for foreign competitors risk incentivizi...