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[It is] concerning that models with far-reaching impact are controlled by a private company. [...] Now would be a good time to agree on disclosure rules and oversight mechanisms. Unverified source (2026)

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)

So I think we'll solve it if we get our act together, we do this internationally, put all the best minds on it, we get going now... And I think given sufficient time with sufficient brain power — I believe in human ingenuity — I think we'll get this ... more Unverified source (2026)

I have heard zero people advocating "make AI do our ASI alignment homework" show they understand the elementary computer science of why that's hard: you can't verify inside a loss function whether a proposed ASI alignment scheme is any good. Unverified source (2026)

Using AI as an engine for growth is the only path for global prosperity, for all. [...] We must commit to providing access to the technology and the talent for small and medium-sized enterprises. [SMEs represent] 50 per cent of the world's GDP, and i... more Unverified source (2026)

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

We have found vulnerabilities in every single system we have tested. Unverified source (2026)

[Could AI undermine confidence in the banking system?] Yeah, probably. But it could also be the kind of technology that allows greatness in the banking system, makes it better and safer and more secure. [...] [Should the government have safeguards on... more Unverified source (2026)

There's not one big magic red button that blows up the data centre, which I think some people sort of assume exists. Verified source (2026)

It needs only an optimization objective that treats shutdown as one more obstacle between the current state and the goal. Unverified source (2026)

This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches. [...] Tech companies love Section 230, which basically says they're not responsible. So if this large language model coaches this child into suicide... more Unverified source (2026)

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves. Unverified source (2026)

There are some digital products (say CSAM and AI letting terrorists make bioweapons) that I oppose regardless of whether they are open-source or not, but I'm overall supportive of open source, and you can easily verify that my MIT research group defa... more Unverified source (2026)

In a time dominated by open-weight biological AI models developed across the globe, limiting access to sensitive pathogen data to legitimate researchers might be one of the most promising avenues for risk reduction. Unverified source (2026)

Since computational infrastructure is largely open-access, decentralized, and global, regulatory chokepoints are limited. Export controls may delay access to high-performance computing, but they are unlikely to prevent the use of open-source models f... more Verified source (2025)

We might have AI that is smarter than any human by end of this year, and no later than next year. And probably 2030 or 2031 -- 5 years from now -- AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively. [...] I said years ago that humans are just the '... more Unverified source (2026)

Until some company or scientist says ‘Here’s the proof! We can definitely have a safety mechanism that can scale to any level of intelligence,’ I don’t think we should be developing those general superintelligences. We can get most of the benefits w... more Unverified source (2024)

For the last-invention story to hold, people would have to become unnecessary even as partners or supervisors to AIs. [...] We would need a world where practical know-how is fully transferable through digital channels and where responsibility can be ... more Unverified source (2026)

Employers are devastating workers' livelihoods and taking no responsibility for the callous decisions of this unchecked technology. We need stronger guardrails to make sure there is human review and oversight of any decision made by a machine that im... more Unverified source (2026)

In 2023, the United States saw countless proposals to ban AI technologies, [...] hiring, [...] law soon must embrace AI; [...] prohibit human intervention [...] Unverified source

I am particularly concerned that the DoD is trying to strong-arm American companies into providing the Department with the tools to spy on American citizens and deploy fully autonomous weapons without adequate safeguards. The barring of Anthropic app... more Unverified source (2026)

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)

The primary prerequisite to even considering starting to work on a safe ASI plan is to have a global ASI ban and powerful enforcement already in place. Unsafe ASI is vastly easier to build than controlled ASI, and is on the same tech path. [...] The ... more Unverified source (2026)

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)

Last week, we saw AI misuse lead to the early retirement of one Chief Constable. Now, the police reportedly plan to use AI to usher in an era of 'predictive policing', targeting criminals before they commit crimes. This is unbelievably unwise. The us... 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)

As we're building potentially a new kind of mind, let's notice the following facts: Humans are pretty bad at understanding minds that are different from us, we're bad at caring about them — and we're especially bad at doing that when there's a lot of... more Unverified source (2026)

We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to some influential, mainstream theories of consciousness but are not conscious according to other influential, mainstream theories of consciousness. We will not be in a position to know whi... more Unverified source (2026)

Computational functionalism claims that executing certain computations is sufficient for consciousness, regardless of the physical mechanisms implementing those computations. This view neglects a compelling alternative: that subcomputational biologic... more Unverified source (2026)

The opt-out approach does not work in practice. Companies don't have the contract details of users and users don't know who is training based on their data. There is absolutely no public support for Meta or Google to include Europeans' personal data ... more Unverified source (2026)

Providing an opt-out to all individuals [...] This is not only a practical impossibility, but also not desirable Unverified source (2026)

The way we're currently training models is super primitive, and so democratizing inherent interpretability is actually going to be a long-term good thing for our role within the human race. As we're going after these models that are going to be super... more 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)