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Expert and Citizen Preferences on AI Governance
Sourced quotes and a participation layer keep expert and citizen preferences in plain view.
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For (38)Tyler JohnstonFounder of the Midas Project, an AI safety watchdog nonprofit monitoring AI companies' compliance with safety commitmentsvotes For and says:This is especially embarrassing given how low the floor SB 53 sets is: basically just adopt a voluntary safety plan of your choice and communicate honestly about it, changing it as needed, but not violating or lying about it. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Neil ChilsonAI policy head, Abundance Institutevotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
51 opinions
For (44)Emmanuel MacronPresident of Francevotes For and says:One of our G7 priorities will be, as well, children's protection against AI and digital abuse. There is no reason our children should be exposed online to what is legally forbidden in the real world. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Morgan WilsmannPublic Knowledge policy advocatevotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
AI will create more jobs than it destroys
61 opinions
For (33)Torsten SlokChief Economist at Apollo Global Managementvotes For and says:AI is everywhere except in the incoming macroeconomic data. Today, you don't see AI in the employment data, productivity data, or inflation data. [...] After three years with ChatGPT and still no signs of AI in the incoming data, it looks like AI wil... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (3)Pascual RestrepoYale economist; Associate Professor studying automation, AI, and labor markets; frequent collaborator with Nobel laureate Daron Acemogluabstains and says: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 Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (26)Ajay BangaPresident of the World Bank Groupvotes Against and says:We have, over the next 12 to 15 years, 1.2 billion young people in the emerging markets who will become eligible for a job in the sense they will come to the age of 18. And yet those very same economies are currently projected to produce around 400 m... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (28)Yoshua BengioAI Pioneer, Turing Award winnervotes For and says:I'm now very confident that it is possible to build AI systems that don't have hidden goals, hidden agendas. [...] A Scientist AI would be trained to give truthful answers based on transparent, probabilistic reasoning. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (12)Scott RobbinsAI ethics researchervotes Against and says:[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option; Unverified source (2019)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Ban autonomous lethal weapons
57 opinions
For (34)Adam SchiffU.S. Senator from California; former House Intelligence Committee chairvotes For and says:Over the past few weeks, it has become even more clear that there is an urgent need for guardrails on how AI is used by the Defense Department. [...] Whenever a technology has the capability of taking a human life, there needs to be a human operator ... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (24)Lt. Gen. Jack ShanahanFormer JAIC director, USAF generalvotes Against and says:To the second part of your question, I am strongly in favor of discussions internationally about things like norms. I think with this point, it would be counterproductive to have outright bans on things that people don't even fully understand what th... more Unverified source (2019)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
29 opinions
For (22)Francesca RossiIBM Fellow and Global Leader for Responsible AI and AI Governancevotes For and says:A nominal 'human-in-the-loop' approach is not enough. If humans are overloaded or lack the right information, oversight becomes symbolic. [...] AI safety is no longer mainly a model issue, but rather a system and deployment issue. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Reid HoffmanLinkedIn co-founder, venture capitalist, author of Superagencyvotes Against and says:You have to do the hard work of thinking about the outcomes that you're trying to steer away from, as opposed to saying just stop until you're perfect. An iterative deployment process that gets AI tools into everyone's hands and then responds to thei... more Unverified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government
17 opinions
For (14)Don BeyerU.S. Representative from Virginia's 8th district; co-sponsor of the GUARDRAILS Act on AIvotes For and says:In today's lawless, Wild West artificial intelligence environment, states have been leading the charge to implement safeguards addressing serious risks ranging from algorithmic bias to data privacy and consumer protection. But the Trump White House a... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (4)David SacksWhite House AI and crypto czarvotes Against and says:This was in response to a growing patchwork of 50 different state regulatory regimes that threaten to stifle innovation and jeopardize America's lead in the AI race. [...] In December, President Trump signed an Executive Order tasking us with the dev... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (6)Elham TabassiDirector of the AI and Emerging Technology Initiative at the Brookings Institution; former Chief AI Advisor at NIST and CTO of the U.S. AI Safety Institutevotes For and says:The tech is moving much faster for policy to keep up with it. Most risk management or governance looks at pre-deployment. But the majority of incidents we have to worry about cannot be reliably predicted before deployment. We don't quite know how to ... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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For (27)Neil deGrasse TysonAstrophysicist, author, science communicatorvotes For and says:That branch of AI is lethal. We've got to do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (15)Jared KaplanAnthropic chief scientistvotes Against and says:We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models. We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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For (37)Pope Leo XIVHead of the Catholic Church; successor to Pope Francis; named to Time 100 AI list for leadership on AI ethicsvotes For and says:If we fail in this task of preservation, digital technology threatens to alter radically some of the fundamental pillars of human civilization. [...] By simulating human voices and faces, wisdom and knowledge, consciousness and responsibility, empath... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Brian McMillanCCIA VP for Federal Affairsvotes Against and says:Without provisions that allow for fair use and free expression online, this legislation would dramatically change the internet. Unverified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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For (30)Brad CarsonAmericans for Responsible Innovation presidentvotes For and says:Generative AI systems do not fit that model. The user provides a prompt. The company designs the model, selects the training data, fine tunes the system and deploys it with parameters of its choosing. The resulting output is not third-party content. ... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (9)Matt SchruersTech policy advocate; CCIA presidentvotes Against and says:This [...] legislation could [...] subjecting [...] to lawsuits [...]. The bill is overly broad [...] subject to litigation. [...] could subject online services to costly [...] lawsuits. Unverified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
15 opinions
For (14)Robert ReichFormer Secretary of Laborvotes For and says:For most of the last 40 years, the jobs and wages of blue-collar Americans were eroded by globalization and computer software, and most of the benefits from productivity gains went to the richest 10 percent. AI is now putting the jobs of millions of ... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)Anton KorinekEconomist at University of Virginia and Brookings Institution; researcher on AI economics and public financevotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation
33 opinions
For (28)Erika Guevara RosasSenior Director of Research, Advocacy Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty Internationalvotes For and says:These gatherings have time and again proven largely irrelevant and ineffective at advancing binding rights protections or the safeguards necessary in the context of immense AI investment. [...] States must urgently course‑correct the current AI traje... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (6)Yuval Noah HarariIsraeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalemvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (26)Ian BremmerGeopolitics expert; Eurasia Group foundervotes For and says:[AI] represents the greatest opportunity and danger humanity has ever created, and with next to no governance, alignment, or coordination. [...] Social media captured attention; AI programs behavior, shapes thoughts, and mediates reality. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (12)Clem ChambersInvestor and financial writervotes Against and says:AI isn't going to destroy mankind. [...] Machines are incredible to power things but it is only in fantasy that they are malignant. Unverified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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For (17)Hany FaridUC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science; leading expert on digital forensics and deepfake detectionvotes For and says:The face and voice are very good. There is a slight misalignment between audio and video, but otherwise this is hyper-realistic and I don't think that most people would immediately know it is fake. [...] I don't think that faint, small font in the bo... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Institute for Free SpeechFirst Amendment advocacy nonprofitvotes Against and says:While there are many problems with this proposal, a few stand above the others and are fatal to this effort. First, the Commission lacks statutory authority to require disclosure or disclaimers on political advertisements that utilize “artificial int... more Unverified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.