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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 Unverified source (2026)

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

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)

I don't think there's really a winning of AGI [...]. A race implies it's zero sum, and it implies that there's a finish line. As we know, technologies and science and knowledge proliferates everywhere [...] basically simultaneously, or within a year ... more AI Verified 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)

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)

Unfortunately, the tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government, which will undermine the ability of the government to do exactly what is needed in order to make a successful transition. AI Verified source (2026)

Right now, companies pay payroll taxes for their workers but get tax breaks for investing in technology—effectively, a tax penalty for hiring human beings and a tax break for buying equipment. [...] Building an economy that works for all of us will r... more AI Verified source (2026)

Capitalism has also depended on somewhat of a power balance between labor and capital, but if it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. [...] If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now, so I don't... more AI Verified source (2026)

Higher taxes on capital income reduce the return on investment, weakening firms' incentives to invest in AI infrastructure, advanced equipment, and productivity-enhancing technologies, which in a global environment where countries such as China are a... more AI Verified source (2026)

The idea is to give millions of children a head start on saving for the future. And we know that when children have accounts like this, even with modest sums, they have better outcomes in life. AI Verified source (2025)

What is needed is a more active political involvement that is capable of slowing things down when everything is accelerating. [...] Calling for prudence, rigorous evaluation and even, at times, a slower pace in adopting AI does not mean opposing prog... more AI Verified source (2026)

My own view, after talking with colleagues in the AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, is that a moratorium would be unenforceable. Instead, I support the proposal made this week by the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to set up a commis... more AI Verified source (2026)

I think we are getting close to a point where we'll have models capable of working indefinitely in a coherent way just like people do. Of course, you still want people in charge and setting the goals. But I think we will get to a point where you kind... more AI Unverifiable 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 AI Verified source (2026)

As uses of AI expand and concerns grow about potential risks, Trump revoked Biden's AI safety initiative and banned states from crafting their own AI regulation, reflecting a 'damn the torpedoes' approach to AI development. AI Unverifiable 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)