YouCongress Polls

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)

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 companies are] deadly serious about building machines that can outperform humans at everything, and [...] deadly serious that they don't know if they'll be able to control the machines they create. Unverified source (2026)

A different future is one where we think carefully about issues of accountability and liability and recognize that the companies and organizations creating these systems should bear some accountability when the systems fail or go awry. We have very w... more 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)

The tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government, which will undermine the ability of the government to do exactly what is needed in order to make a successful transition. [...] If the tech oliga... more Unverified source (2026)

The whole world might have an interest in saying, hold on, wait — let's not make artificial super intelligence until we can be sure that it can be controlled or done safely. [...] We can have all that while at the same time working together internati... 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)

We are moving toward a world where universal basic income could become a reality, while at the same time AI may create levels of wealth we have never seen before, including the rise of trillionaires. Unverified source (2026)

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

Intelligence without rules and rails is a dangerous blind spot. [...] Governance isn't a feature. It's the whole ball game. Because without it, your whole company can come down. 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)

If a government AI kill switch already existed, would the current DOD or current administration have used it, or the threat of it, against Anthropic? Could they use it to coerce AI companies into behaviors that are counter to the public interest? Unverified source (2026)

There is no upper limit on how intelligent AIs will get or on how good robots will get, and I believe the advances will not plateau before exceeding human levels. [...] AI capabilities will allow us to make far more goods and services with less labor... more Unverified source (2026)

I do not believe there's going to be like a singular, identifiable point where the economy is going to take off, and there's going to be abundance. [Whether AI's benefits are widely shared] is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

Normalizing the use of AI in our media ecosystem broadly, but certainly in our political information system, absolutely carries the risk of undermining trust and belief and the trust that is so critical in our information and our media ecosystem. Unverified source (2026)

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)

The right thing [for] Dario and Anthropic [to do is] to lay it out, give people a chance to study it, understand the vulnerabilities, come up with plans so we can handle it. 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)

Now there is a flood of relatively low-quality content. Because the quantity is so large, it congests the recommendation systems, so it gets harder to encounter the truly high-quality content. Unverified source (2026)

8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone. Or, less formally, ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.'' I dub this: ``Linus's Law''. My origin... more AI Unverifiable source (2000)

We are not just focusing on AI as a mathematical or algorithmic field: we are also looking at ensuring that humans are central to decision-making. [...] We are trying to work out when we need to rely on humans and their expertise, and when things can... more 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)

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

You can't have accountability without transparency. Black box models are not transparent, and they don't mix well with human oversight. Either the human blindly trusts the model—or doesn't trust it at all. 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)

Those stark dependencies that we have endured so far should not be as normalised and as acceptable as it has been for the last two decades. [...] I think it takes intellectual bravery to chart our own path and understand what is good for us rather th... more Unverified source (2026)

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