YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is 1) broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and 2) strong public buy-in.

But we don't think it makes sense for us to stop engaging with AI research, AI safety, and most likely lose relevance as an innovator who understands the frontier of the technology, in a scenario where others are going ahead and we're not actually co...

My view: AI companies should be liable for harms their products cause. Liability gives them an incentive to invest in prevention upfront.

Existing legal principles, such as under tort and contract law, can be applied by our courts to assess and determine liability in appropriate cases. That being said, we share the concerns raised by the Member, and will continue to study this issue, i...

I just don’t think the developer is in a position to know exactly how their product is being used.

Financial institutions are delegating consequential decisions to agentic AI systems that decompose goals, coordinate models and tools, and act with little oversight. Yet agentic AI governance in FinTech is under-investigated.

Agentic AI requires a different model, one where leadership defines direction, systems enforce boundaries, and accountability is explicit.

Advanced model weights can be high-consequence assets. If stolen or openly released without adequate safeguards, they may allow actors to remove safety filters, fine-tune models for harmful uses, or reproduce capabilities that would otherwise remain ...

To summarize my and Anthropic’s position, we have not and are not advocating for a ban on open-weights models as a category. We should instead focus on keeping powerful chips out of authoritarian hands, stopping industrial-scale distillation, and req...

AI whistleblowers are essential to safer, more ethical AI because they surface hidden risks and serve as regulators of last resort. This requires that we build a whistleblowing system that not only relies on the moral courage of whistleblowers but al...

Connecticut already has strong whistleblower laws that protect employees from retaliation. [...] creating a separate, AI-specific whistleblower regime could lead to confusion, duplication, and unintended consequences for employers operating in highly...

It will be that multi-trillion-dollar A.I. companies keep doing exactly what they're doing under the worst possible incentives to race as fast as possible to replace all human labor in the economy. I think something that's important to get, like why ...

The uneven adoption of AI risks widening economic disparities—both within labour markets and between regions.

We’re the first organization in the country that’s told our staff we’re not going to lay anyone off because of AI. We believe that AI should be used to help people. It should be human-centered, and it really should be a tool rather than a replacement...

The event also marked the launch of the “AI.grids” project, to develop EU sovereign AI models together with 48 partners including grid operators and research institutes to improve the management and planning of energy grids.

Europe should prioritize “code over concrete.”

We therefore call for public and worker control of Artificial Intelligence technologies, and for the end of their use for mass surveillance and as weapons of war, in order to ensure that AI tools are used for the benefit of working people and not to ...

This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...

The new legal framework must include a meaningful regulatory regime which operationalises principles such as necessity, responsibility, proportionality, transparency, accountability and lawfulness. These principles should then structure and constrain...

At the intersection is high-risk, high-reward research that requires both massive scale and deep, mission-driven work – something that is difficult to pursue in either environment alone. With AI Forge, we’re looking to build an ambitious new ecosyste...

Pretraining has already produced models with strong semantic competence: they can understand natural language, extract facts, draft arguments, and explain complex materials.

The result is an AI that mimics the structure of human interiority in its output without possessing any interiority at all.

Artificial intelligence is, by its very nature, a centralized technology. The creation of advanced models requires the mobilization of colossal financial resources, computational capacities, and large-scale data. This unprecedented concentration of p...

The findings reveal serious gaps in basic safeguards for children: Children were able to access adult features: None of the providers had robust age verification measures, relying instead on app store ratings or self-declaration at signup.

Age verification can be done well in a privacy-protective way, but it is not easy.

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves.

We need an AI of humanity, by humanity, and for humanity. One that serves every society, benefits every nation, and remains accountable to us all.

Reliable methods for retaining control over highly autonomous AI systems are lacking. There are no scientific guarantees that AI agents will not violate instructions, and evidence is accumulating of cases where they already violate them. In laborator...

If you’re relying on a ‘kill switch’ to stop an AI agent, you’ve already made a fundamental mistake. A properly governed agent is simply never handed the task, so there is nothing to kill.

On nuclear, international agreement came only after the world saw the terrifying power of the new technology at Hiroshima – and asked what would happen if it fell into the wrong hands. We cannot afford to wait for an AI equivalent of Hiroshima before...

I don’t think it will be doom and gloom in the next five years. But we have to put our effort into understanding vulnerabilities and mitigating the risks. Otherwise it will be too late.

They lack the intrinsic motivation for self-preservation, dominance, or resource competition that underlies existential-risk scenarios, and the embodied vulnerability required for feeling or suffering.