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Surprisingly, even though the lack of reliability of AI agents is well known, right now the AI industry doesn't have good tools for measuring reliability, or even a good definition of reliability. [...] For autonomous operation in high-stakes context... more Unverified source (2026)

A "human in the loop" whose sole function is to approve a machine's actions is not a safeguard but a design failure. [...] In high-stakes environments, the illusion of human oversight is worse than no oversight at all. It creates confidence without c... more Unverified source (2026)

We polled people in Illinois, asking whether they think AI companies should be exempt from liability, and 90 percent of people oppose it. There's no reason existing AI companies should be facing reduced liability. Unverified source (2026)

This [...] legislation could [...] subjecting [...] to lawsuits [...]. The bill is overly broad [...] subject to litigation. [...] could subject online services to costly [...] lawsuits. Unverified source (2023)

I think it's now. I think we've achieved AGI. [...] It is not out of the question that a Claude [model] was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden, you know, a few billion people used for 50 cents, and then it ... more Unverified source (2026)

When you're taking over all cognitive functions—the ability to answer a question, to make a decision, to make a plan... you are turning someone into less than a human being. Unverified source (2026)

For the first time, the United States is using AI to generate targets in large-scale combat operations in Iran. And lawmakers are still debating whether to draw red lines on fully autonomous weapons. The absence of governance is itself a national sec... 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)

In some cases, it does replace what they're doing. But at the same time, it helps people be twice or even 10 times more productive. 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)

Job loss is going to happen. [...] I wouldn't be surprised if we are at the beginning of decades of job displacement. Unverified source (2026)

The tech giants ingest vast amounts of copyrighted material: books, journalism, academic papers, art, music and personal writing. This data is scraped at industrial scale, often without consent, compensation or transparency, and then used to train la... 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)

In the blueprint, we talk, for instance, about incident reporting that's modeled a little bit after how the aviation industry does things whenever there's kind of a near miss or any incidents, however minor, that kind of gets reported to a database s... more Unverified source (2026)

If you have to report to 50 different state regulators at 50 different times with 50 different definitions, it's extremely onerous. And it's going to slow down innovation, and it's going to hinder our progress in the AI race. Unverified source (2025)

For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty. Unverified source (2026)

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)

California leads in AI, and we're going to use every tool we have to ensure companies protect people's rights, not exploit them or put them in harm's way. [...] While others in Washington are designing policy and creating contracts in the shadow of m... more Unverified source (2026)

The United States cannot remain competitive if developers, businesses, and users face fifty different legal regimes governing a general-purpose technology. [...] Congress should take this recommendation seriously and establish a light-touch national ... more Unverified source (2026)

It may be a good thing that [AI development is] not as fast. There's a whole bunch of other things that we need to think through with this technology [...] We don't have a lot of time to sort out before we get to [Artificial General Intelligence]. Unverified source (2026)

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)

We need a glass box approach instead of a black box, where safety rules can be viewed and verified. Accountability will become clearer, and ethical behaviour in business will also be encouraged. 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)

No society should build machines that can meet a child in their loneliest moment and offer them harm as if it were help. [...] Social media broadcasts to billions, AI whispers to one. Unverified source (2026)

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)

As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. [...] In today's geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control... more Unverified source (2026)

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

We are moving from AI-as-tool, where a human uses a machine to support their own analysis or recommendations, to AI-as-agent, where the machine initiates, decides, and executes, potentially without human involvement. A fiduciary gap emerges in a worl... more Unverified source (2026)

With agentic AI, experienced auditors would be supported by autonomous agents, allowing them to dedicate more attention to complex and judgment-oriented procedures. Unverified source (2025)

We're redefining what it means to be an insurance agent — with fully autonomous AI agents that will eliminate human error, offer superior client interactions 24/7, and fundamentally alter industry expectations. Unverified source (2025)

Policymakers could rebalance the tax base by increasing reliance on capital-based revenues—such as higher taxes on capital gains at the top, corporate income, or targeted measures on sustained AI-driven returns—and by exploring new approaches such as... more Unverified source (2026)

Capitalism has also depended on somewhat of a power balance between labor and capital, but if it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. [...] If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now, so I don't... more Unverified source (2026)

Why pick on robots? [...] I don't think simply trying to resist or stop technology is a viable strategy. I don't think it would be a viable strategy if it was adoptable on a global basis, but it's even less viable for a single country in internationa... more Unverified source (2017)