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The key risk is not only "runaway" AI, but the quiet normalization of systems that undermine human dignity, due process, and equal protection because no one is clearly accountable when things go wrong. [...] The central question will be whether gover... more Unverified 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)

Without AI safeguards, we may soon face epistemic chaos, engineered pandemics, and systematic human rights violation. History teaches us that when confronted with irreversible, borderless threats, cooperation is the only rational way to pursue nation... more Unverified source (2025)

With nuclear weapons, [...] they can't [...] in secret, but with developing new types of AI, it's much easier [...] So it's not enough to have an agreement. Unverified source (2018)

Legislatures and regulators face significant challenges in rapidly translating conventional command-and-control legal requirements into technical requirements. [...] Overreliance on industry to provide technical standards fails to ensure that the man... 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)

I'm not in the job apocalypse camp. Technology has been disrupting jobs, changing the way people work, destroying jobs, and forcing us as a vibrant economy to create new jobs for decades. It's no different this time. Unverified source (2026)

The evidence on how AI is affecting the labor market today is inconclusive, and claims about harmful impacts on particular groups of workers are premature. [...] All the important questions about AI's effects on the labor market are still unanswered.... more Unverified source (2026)

If you're worried about immigration taking jobs, you should be way more worried about AI. [...] It's like a flood of millions of new digital immigrants that are Nobel Prize–level capability, work at superhuman speed, and will work for less than minim... more Unverified source (2026)

This is not deregulation. It is hyper-regulation by other means. [...] When consequential decisions are made through executive discretion rather than deliberative process, they escape ordinary channels of accountability. [...] Democratic accountabili... more Unverified source (2026)

Instead of pushing AI amnesty, President Trump rightfully called on Congress to pass federal standards and protections to solve the patchwork of state laws that has hindered AI innovation. Now, Congress must answer his call to establish one federal r... more Unverified source (2026)

I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough... more Unverified source (2015)

When 90% of the messaging is all around the end of the world and the pessimism...we're scaring people from making the investments in AI. It's not helpful. It's not helpful to people. It's not helpful to the industry. It's not helpful to society. It's... more Unverified source (2026)

The idea is to make this worker centric; we have to focus on people. [...] It can't be on rate payers, homeowners, and small businesses to pay for the infrastructure for a big business that ultimately is going to be making billions of dollars on this... more Unverified source (2026)

As labor income taxation becomes less viable, the primary lesson is that consumption taxation must carry more fiscal weight. This shift aligns naturally with pro-innovation policies, as consumption taxes avoid penalizing the capital investments essen... more Unverified source (2026)

The European Commission strongly promotes secure digital communication infrastructures made in Europe, aiming to make the most of telco-edge-cloud convergence, with and for AI. The EU-funded project EURO-3C federates the efforts of a very large numbe... more Unverified source (2026)

trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty. Unverified source (2025)

Predictive policing is a dangerous thing that has no place in a democratic society. [...] bias and stereotypes at scale. Black people, migrant people, poor people, people from geographic areas which have been historically over policed are more likely... more Unverified source (2026)

That’s not to say that police departments shouldn’t use software to analyze their data. [...] Further development of the technology is inevitable, so local governments and police departments should develop appropriate standards and practices. [...] P... more Unverified source (2017)

One year ago, nobody would have thought that we would see the wave of psychological issues that have come from people interacting with AI systems. We've seen children and adolescents going through situations that should be avoided. [...] All of that ... more Unverified source (2026)

Although age restrictions on chatbots designed for erotic or intimate interactions likely meet the “obscene for children” standard from Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, we oppose wide-ranging age restrictions, as they could hinder both children and a... more Unverified source (2025)

For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty. [...] Each of the CEOs of the main AI companies, I believe, wants to disarm, but they cannot d... more Unverified source (2026)

If you have to report to 50 different state regulators at 50 different times with 50 different definitions, it's extremely onerous. And it's going to slow down innovation, and it's going to hinder our progress in the AI race. Unverified source (2025)

For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty. Unverified source (2026)

This [...] legislation could [...] subjecting [...] to lawsuits [...]. The bill is overly broad [...] subject to litigation. [...] could subject online services to costly [...] lawsuits. Unverified source (2023)

It's crazy to use these models in high-stakes situations and not understand them. Unverified source (2026)

[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option; Unverified source (2019)

These technologies – with their extraordinary potential benefits and equally extraordinary risks – cannot be governed by any single country, no matter how powerful it is. Effective governance requires exactly what we are missing: legitimate, effectiv... more Unverified source (2026)

The US totally rejects all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI. Ideological fixations on social equity, climate catastrophism, and so-called existential risk are dangers to progress and obstacles ... more Unverified source (2025)

With its incredible power comes incredible risk, especially given the speed with which it is being developed and released. [...] We need to build a steering wheel, a brake, and all the other features of a car beyond just a gas pedal. Unverified source (2026)

Those compliance costs are merely the beginning. The bill, if passed, would feed California regulators truckloads of company information that they will use to design a compliance industrial complex. Unverified source (2025)