YouCongress Polls

If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are? Unverified source (2026)

Large language models can be thought of as advanced role-players. They are really good at adopting roles based on what they've learned from their training data. That can include playing the role of a conscious robot. [...] If you have an emotional co... more Unverified source (2026)

Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view fundament... more Unverified source (2026)

There's suddenly a new possibility, a new opportunity, to use these tools, learn them, and start your own mini business. [...] Even if there is temporary job displacement to deal with, that sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to. Unverified 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 Unverified source (2026)

I believe that millions of white-collar workers are going to lose their jobs in the next 12 to 18 months due to AI. AI is now able to do the work of a very, very smart human in minutes or even seconds. This is going to displace marketers, coders, des... more Unverified source (2026)

The open web is something extraordinary: anybody can use whatever tools they have, to create content following publicly documented specifications, published using completely free and open platforms, and then share that work with anyone, anywhere, wit... more Unverified source (2026)

I’m in league with Doctorow and EFF on some of these things, but also find myself thinking they go much too far in other ways. At root, their work and advocacy raise a profound question: should there be any general right to exclude on digital platfor... more AI Unverifiable source (2020)

Some good news in alignment: as models become more capable, they are also more aligned, across multiple measures, including spec compliance. However, the improvement is not sufficient to match the higher stakes that come up with improved capabilities... more Unverified source (2026)

The real extinction-level AI safety challenge, the reason we're nowhere close to surviving superintelligence, is something AI companies decided they won't mention anymore, because it exposes their AI safety efforts as a shockingly inadequate facade. ... more Unverified source (2026)

AI will soon become powerful enough to be used to repress citizens at unprecedented scale, and even to alter the balance of power among nations. [...] In this world, AI norms and rules are shaped by authoritarian regimes, and the best models enable a... more Unverified 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)

Congress has a moral obligation to stand with the American people and stop the expansion of these data centers until we have a framework to adequately address the existential harm AI poses to our society. 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)

I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. [...] My favourite version of an international AGI project is loosely modelled on Intelsat, an international project that developed the first global satellite communicat... more Unverified source (2026)

[...] calls for a CERN-like open-source collaboration among the United States and allied countries to establish an international "supercomputing research facility". Unverified source (2023)

Through the different interactions we had with the scientific community, we thought the best way forward is to have networking of what exists in Europe and strengthening of what exists, instead of creating new infrastructures. Unverified source (2025)

The more immediate and tangible risk is the concentration of AI decisionmaking in a handful of individuals responsible primarily to themselves and their shareholders. [...] When a handful of companies make consequential choices about model behavior, ... more Unverified source (2026)

Europe enters the AI era over-regulated and under-industrialized, imports the vast majority of its advanced semiconductors, pays materially higher industrial electricity prices than the U.S., and still relies on American cloud providers for the bulk ... more Unverified source (2026)

trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty. Unverified source (2025)

AI deepfakes that impersonate physicians are not just scams—they are a public health and safety crisis. When bad actors exploit a doctor's identity, they undermine patient trust and can steer people toward harmful, unproven care. Unverified source (2026)

Without provisions that allow for fair use and free expression online, this legislation would dramatically change the internet. Unverified source (2024)

The events around Tumbler Ridge are as clear as possible a demonstration of the moral hazard that comes with centralizing authority over safety at a place like OpenAI. Unverified source (2026)

Industry leaders like Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI—a strategic cohort that has been responsibly transparent and repeatedly explicit about the compounding AI crisis of control—must form a coalition of the willing to lead their ind... more 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)

There is even a growing tendency among political and military leaders to shirk responsibility, as decisions about life and death are increasingly "delegated" to machines. [...] [This represents] an unprecedented destructive betrayal of the legal and ... more Unverified 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)

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 AI Verified source (2019)

I think this is crazy... like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging, oh yeah, Boeing made the case. Unverified 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 Unverified source (2026)

If you ever went out with a car that had no brake, boy, you are in trouble if you go down a hill. But you're in even more trouble if there's no steering wheel. [...] They want a very fast car with no steering wheel. Unverified source (2026)

The question that people are debating is whether it makes sense to regulate research and development of AI. And I don't think it does. Unverified source (2023)