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The race to attention becomes the race to intimacy. There is massive market incentive to have your company's AI occupy the chief intimate relational spot in someone's life, especially kids. [...] Any moment that you spend talking with your friends or... more 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)

That branch of AI is lethal. We've got to do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans. 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)

Everybody wants to talk about job loss, but really what you want to look at is task loss. The job persists longer than the individual tasks. 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)

We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment, if we are ready to do the regulatory challenge. 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)

LLMs, such as GPT-4 and its successors, might provide dual-use information and thus remove some barriers encountered by historical biological weapons efforts. [...] BDTs may enable the creation of pandemic pathogens substantially worse than anything ... more Verified source (2023)

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)

They love Section 230, which basically says they're not responsible. If this large language model coaches this child into suicide, they're not responsible because of Section 230. That's probably something that needs to get reshaped, shifted, changed. 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)

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)

When 90% of the messaging is all around the end of the world and the pessimism...we're scaring people from making the investments in AI. It's not helpful. It's not helpful to people. It's not helpful to the industry. It's not helpful to society. It's... more Unverified source (2026)

This is a technology which basically enables a computer to replace the thought of millions of people and then delivers their salaries to the person who owns the computer. 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)

As labor income taxation becomes less viable, the primary lesson is that consumption taxation must carry more fiscal weight. This shift aligns naturally with pro-innovation policies, as consumption taxes avoid penalizing the capital investments essen... more 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)

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)

Deepfake and fabricated content are bringing instability in open societies. In the physical world we see nutrition labels on food to inform our decisions. Likewise, authenticity labels should accompany digital content so that people know what is AI g... more 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)

We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our... more 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)

I like the emphasis on transparent risk reporting and publicly verifiable safety roadmaps [but am] concerned that moving away from binary thresholds might enable a "frog-boiling" effect, where danger slowly ramps up without a single moment that sets ... more 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)

Most risk management or governance looks at pre-deployment. But the majority of incidents we have to worry about cannot be reliably predicted before deployment. [...] We need standardised definitions of incidents and accidents. 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)

I rise today to ask the Senate to pass the DEFIANCE Act — bipartisan legislation that gives victims of nonconsensual, sexually-explicit deepfakes the tools they need to fight back against those who exploit them. Imagine losing control over your own l... 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)

Embracing the amazing possibilities of AI can't come at the cost of leaving Americans vulnerable to its profound risks, which is exactly what President Trump and Republicans are trying to do. Preventing states from enacting common-sense regulation th... more Verified 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's very important that we have international summits like this to discuss how to make sure the opportunities benefit the whole world and how we can mitigate the risks. [...] It is becoming an incredibly important convening point for international d... more Unverified source (2026)

With nuclear weapons, [...] they can't [...] in secret, but with developing new types of AI, it's much easier [...] So it's not enough to have an agreement. Unverified source (2018)