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YouCongress Polls
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 (50)Kevin HassettDirector of the U.S. National Economic Council; economist; former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisersvotes For and says:We're studying, possibly an executive order to give a clear roadmap to everybody about how this is going to go and how future AIs that also potentially create vulnerabilities should go through a process so that they're released to the wild after they... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (6)Eric SchmidtFormer Google CEO; tech investorvotes Against and says:A [central] problem with regulating frontier AI models is that a new feature emerges in these systems that is not tested, testable. [...] As long as you have this new emergent power, you have deep reasoning, deep capabilities, and they will make mist... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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For (33)Saif M. KhanDistinguished Technology Fellow at the Institute for Progress; former Director for Technology and National Security at the U.S. National Security Council; former Counselor for Critical and Emerging Technologies at the U.S. Department of Commercevotes For and says:Export controls on chipmaking tools are the foundation of America's technology competition strategy with China. They are directly responsible for U.S. leadership in emerging technologies such as AI and quantum computing and defense technologies of th... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (7)Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of ChinaChina's foreign ministryvotes Against and says:coerced or courted some countries to adopt export restrictions against China. [...] Such bullying acts seriously violate market principles and the international trade order Unverified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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For (43)Justin TrudeauFormer Prime Minister of Canada (2015–2025); former leader of the Liberal Partyvotes For and says:We will probably in the coming years end up with a handful of trillionaires—that is OK in a sense that we need to aspire to something. But if we suddenly have 100 trillionaires or 1,000 trillionaires, something will be fundamentally wrong with the wo... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Yann LeCunComputer scientist, AI researcherabstains and says:Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
46 opinions
For (36)Sundar PichaiCEO of Google and Alphabetvotes For and says:All of us, including the government, are aligned on humans in the loop, and the technology not being used for mass surveillance in a way that contradicts human rights. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (10)Uri MaozCognitive and computational neuroscientist; Associate Professor at Chapman University with appointments at UCLA and Caltechvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (15)Audrey TangTaiwan digital affairs ministervotes For and says:Instead of putting citizens, humans, in the loop of AI, we need to take them out and put AI into the loop of humanity. Treating AI as an infrastructure for human coordination is more fast, fair, and fun than the colonial alternative. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)Kevin T. FrazierLaw professor; AI litigation scholarvotes Against and says:Increasingly complex AI cases require juries of experts and professional peers rather than a random selection of citizens. Unverified source (2023)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
65 opinions
For (56)Blake MooreU.S. Representative for Utah's 1st congressional district; Vice Chair of the House Republican Conference; co-sponsor of the GUARD Actvotes For and says:The GUARD Act is a critical step to draw lines in the sand with Big Tech and ensure that minors are protected from chatbots that mimic romantic and social companionship. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (9)Adam ThiererR Street Institute senior fellowvotes Against and says:Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
72 opinions
For (55)Buck ShlegerisCEO of Redwood Research; AI safety researcher focused on AI controlvotes For and says:I think it will be increasingly important for AI companies to have a policy of getting external feedback on the risks posed by their deployments, and in particular having some external accountability on whether they have adequate evidence to support ... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (17)Kevin FrazierLawfare contributorvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (24)Pope Leo XIVHead of the Catholic Churchvotes For and says:Content generated or manipulated by AI must be clearly labeled and distinguished from content created by humans. The authorship and sovereign ownership of the work of journalists and other content creators must be protected. 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.
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AI alignment is solvable
23 opinions
For (10)Andrew NgBaidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brainvotes For and says:The lack of control of AI is one of the things that has been overhyped. [...] We can't control AI exactly. And it will sometimes be buffeted around by random factors. But with the right engineering, we can control them well enough for most applicatio... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (13)Marius HobbhahnCEO and co-founder of Apollo Research; AI safety researcher specializing in scheming and pre-deployment evaluations of frontier AI systemsvotes Against and says:It becomes increasingly hard to tell the difference between genuinely aligned and merely responding to the test. We're working both on measures that are more robust to eval awareness and more frontier evals for scheming. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (33)Lord Fairfax of CameronScottish hereditary peer; Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; AI safety advocatevotes For and says:I urge the Government to take three steps: first, to publicly recognise that superintelligence poses an extinction threat to humanity; secondly, for the UK to prevent the development of superintelligence on its soil; and, thirdly, for the UK to resum... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (17)Nick BostromPhilosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI foundervotes Against and says:Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
62 opinions
For (39)Andrea MiottiFounder and CEO of ControlAIvotes For and says:Many people working in AI feel like they're living within a lie. Privately, they know that the current reckless pursuit of superintelligent AI poses an extinction threat to our species, but publicly they keep quiet so as to not rock the boat and risk... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (23)Milton MuellerProfessor at Georgia Tech School of Public Policy; internet governance scholar and co-founder of the Internet Governance Projectvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity
13 opinions
For (11)Tom WheelerVisiting Fellow at Brookings Institution; former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2013-2017; author and tech policy expertvotes For and says:Without data portability, interoperability, and shared access, the AI ecosystem will calcify around a small group of entrenched incumbents who control the essential asset. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)Satya NadellaMicrosoft CEOvotes Against and says:The big winners here are not going to be tech companies. The winners are going to be the broader industry that uses this commodity [...] that, by the way, is abundant. Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
[🇺🇸 Congress, Jan 2026] Giving Congress power to block AI chip exports to adversaries
36 opinions
For (25)Michael McCaulU.S. Representative, House Foreign Affairs chairvotes For and says:There are special interest groups out there right now with millions of dollars funded by the very people who will profit off the sale of these chips and others that [...] are waging a social media campaign war [...] against this bill, which the chair... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Sarah KrepsCornell tech policy professorabstains and says:DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (10)Ryan FournierConservative political commentatorvotes Against and says:President Trumps authority is clear. The Commander in Chief has ultimate authority on foreign affairs. Democrats and their Deep State partners are purposefully misleading House Republicans to strip him of this authority... America must win the AI Col... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (18)Vitalik ButerinEthereum cofounder; technologistvotes For and says:"AI becomes the government" is dystopian: it leads to slop when AI is weak, and is doom-maximizing once AI becomes strong. But AI used well can be empowering, and push the frontier of democratic / decentralized modes of governance. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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For (32)Elon MuskFounder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPalvotes For and says:I do think you want to actually have very good ways to look inside the mind of the AI. [...] Anthropic's done a good job of this actually, being able to look inside the mind of the AI. 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.