YouCongress Polls

What I've seen so far in every company that says, 'I'm doing layoffs because of AI,' maybe other than Meta, is not out of productivity, but is just out of reshifting. We've overhired because of the pandemic. We're going to call it AI for a position o... more 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)

In recent years, artificial intelligence systems have increasingly taken control of the production of texts, music and videos. This puts much of the human creative industry at risk of being dismantled and replaced with the label 'Powered by AI,' turn... more AI Verified source (2026)

States have to be able to protect American families from a technology that could destroy millions of jobs, addict kids to harmful chatbots, drive up utility bills, and deepen the crisis of loneliness [...] AI Verified 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)

We are standing in the foothills of the singularity. [...] I think what we're seeing is soft self-improvement, in the sense of these coding agents are making engineers much more productive. AI Verified source (2026)

Until some company or scientist says ‘Here’s the proof! We can definitely have a safety mechanism that can scale to any level of intelligence,’ I don’t think we should be developing those general superintelligences. We can get most of the benefits w... more AI Verified source (2024)

Plot the same improvements on a linear y-axis and you get steady incremental gains, impressive but not the hockey stick that triggered the panic. [...] We don't have evidence that Mythos is actually an important step towards broad superintelligence. AI Verified source (2026)

The thought of open source AGI being released before we have worked out how to regulate these very powerful AI systems is really very scary, AI Verified source (2024)

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)

The Defense Department is throwing a fit over Anthropic asking for the bare minimum ethical guardrails on how DOD uses its product. That's serious cause for alarm, given AI's ability to turn disparate pieces of public or commercial data into highly r... more AI Verified source (2026)

It causes a lot of cases to get solved. It’s another tool we’re now not going to have. That facial recognition can potentially solve homicides, [...] Unverified source (2026)

The growing ease with which autonomous weapons systems can be deployed makes war more 'feasible' and less subject to human control. [...] Very troubling voices have also reached me about increasingly autonomous weapons systems practically beyond any ... 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)

We can't allow a handful of billionaires, eager to increase their wealth and power, to rush forward with a technology that will fundamentally transform humanity without democratic input or accountability. 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)

We've been concerned about these chatbots for a while now and have heard anecdotal reports of children – some as young as 10 years of age – spending up to 5 hours per day conversing, at times sexually, with AI companions. [...] it's important these c... more AI Verified source (2026)

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

As with every major technological shift, AI tends to amplify the power of those who already possess economic resources, expertise and access to data. [...] AI technology in the hands of few, profit-oriented individuals or groups represents a new form... more AI Verified source (2026)

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

The fruits of the AI industry are not the government's "free safe." This is an anti-market idea that goes against market principles and is no different from socialist-style distribution. AI Unverifiable source (2026)

The European Commission has agreed Europe needs such a body for AI, and claims to have delivered it in recent announcements. But in reality, it has not established anything resembling a CERN for AI. AI Verified source (2026)

[...] calls for a CERN-like open-source collaboration among the United States and allied countries to establish an international "supercomputing research facility". AI Verified source (2023)

Through the different interactions we had with the scientific community, we thought the best way forward is to have networking of what exists in Europe and strengthening of what exists, instead of creating new infrastructures. AI Verified source (2025)

Passing FISA 702 without strong new guardrails, while doing nothing to stop the government from buying Americans' location data and feeding it into AI systems to conduct unprecedented mass surveillance, would be shocking negligence. 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)

There is no upper limit on how intelligent AIs will get or on how good robots will get, and I believe the advances will not plateau before exceeding human levels. [...] AI capabilities will allow us to make far more goods and services with less labor... more AI Verified source (2026)

Rather than creating an age of abundance in which most people no longer have to worry about money, new technologies have contributed to a two-tiered society comprising a relatively few with extraordinary wealth and a vast number of people barely maki... more AI Verified source (2026)

AI must, in all cases, be governed by common rules for everyone, based on shared principles, ethical and democratic accountability and effective multilateralism. AI Verified source (2026)

[This is] a significant overreach of the U.N.'s mandate and competence. We will not cede authority over AI to international bodies that may be influenced by authoritarian regimes seeking to impose their vision of controlled surveillance societies. AI Verified source (2026)

What is happening in Ukraine, in Gaza and the Palestinian territories, in Lebanon, and in Iran illustrates the inhuman evolution of the relationship between war and new technologies in a spiral of annihilation. [...] [AI systems must be monitored] so... more AI Verified 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)

We are likely on track to develop AI systems capable of causing human extinction/permanent disempowerment, quite possibly within the next few years. AI Unverifiable 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 Unverified source (2026)