YouCongress Polls

A bad outcome is one where the end result of AI is even higher concentrations of wealth and power in this country than what we already have. [...] A good outcome is one where the end result of AI is a shorter work week and more money in your pocket. Unverified source (2026)

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

surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. Unverified source (2026)

It causes a lot of cases to get solved. It’s another tool we’re now not going to have. That facial recognition can potentially solve homicides, [...] Unverified source (2026)

Anybody's appearance can (given sufficient data) be faked now, at any time, for almost nothing. Because the tools for counterfeiting have gotten so good, 2026 will almost certainly see more deepfaked scams like this than the rest of history combined.... more Unverified source (2026)

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

I resigned from OpenAI. [...] AI has an important role in national security. But [...] lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. 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)

What are we beating them to? We're beating them to something that we don't know how to control and we are not on track to control. Unverified source (2026)

The idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it, others will do so nearly as fast. [...] Even if all Western companies stopped their work on AI, authoritarian countries wo... more Unverified source (2026)

If we go down this path of destroying jobs [and] creating more inequality, U.S. democracy is not going to survive. [...] We may need wealth taxes, because anything else we do today is still going to lead to this huge wealth gap that exists in this co... 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)

It doesn't make sense that private individuals are deciding the fate of infrastructure for everyone else. What about all the companies and all the countries that didn't get access? Unverified source (2026)

The US totally rejects all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI. Ideological fixations on social equity, climate catastrophism, and so-called existential risk are dangers to progress and obstacles ... more Unverified source (2025)

The federal government needs a reporting threshold for all artificial intelligence companies that deliver services in Canada, where they must report to law enforcement, so there's no judgment calls in a back room that Canadians don't have a line of 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)

The dangerous trends in nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies such as AI and biosecurity are accompanied by another frightening development: the rise of nationalistic autocracies. [...] AI is a significant and accelerating disruptive ... more 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)

Right now, AI companies face few if any consequences for the harms their products cause. In their "move fast and break things" culture, these companies release AI products to the public despite foreseeable risks, and evade accountability when their p... more Unverified source

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

Real innovation comes from the human motivation to change our lives. It moves opportunity forward while driving economic growth and creating jobs. But AI companies are endangering artists' careers while exploiting their practiced craft, using human a... 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 final stage of the judicial process, pronouncement of judgments, must remain firmly in human hands. Unverified source (2026)

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)

Advanced AI systems need a robust off-switch to ensure humans never lose control over them. [...] For any hope of control we cannot rely on software-based safety measures alone. The same sort of hardware security measures that keep your face private ... 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)

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)

I think there are ways in which [the pursuit of artificial general intelligence] is a misguided agenda. [...] It would have huge social consequences that are quite adverse. Unverified source (2026)

The creators of AI are saying, 'We are building a technology that will kill every single person on Earth with a 25% probability.' And governments are saying, 'Oh, go ahead, that's great.' 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)