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AI will create more jobs than it destroys
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Gary CohnIBM vice chairman and former director of the U.S. National Economic Council.votes For and says:I believe that AI will be a productivity boom for this country. [...] If the economy grows and GDP grows, which is what happens in productivity, you actually create more jobs or you don't lose jobs because you need more jobs for what's going on in th...
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Gavin NewsomGovernor of Californiavotes For and says:
Proposals under consideration include requiring independent third parties to be embedded in frontier AI companies to verify safety frameworks and independently assess safety evaluations, as well as requiring companies to develop an emergency shutoff,...
more AI Verified source (Sep 23, 2026)Gavin Newsom · statements & votes- For [🇺🇸 Congress, Oct 2025] Requiring age verification and content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors (Sep 11, 2026)
- For Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen (Jun 26, 2026)
- Against AI will create a permanent underclass (May 21, 2026)
- For Introduce a universal basic wealth system that grants individuals a capital endowment at birth (May 20, 2026)
- For AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone (May 7, 2026)
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Donald J. TrumpU.S. President (2025–present)votes Against and says:
We will only encourage super intelligence. We’re going to encourage it, not rein it in.
AI Verified source (Sep 23, 2026)Donald J. Trump · statements & votes- Against Nations should establish binding international rules for AI safety and governance (Sep 23, 2026)
- Against AI poses an existential threat to humanity (Sep 14, 2026)
- Against Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely (Sep 13, 2026)
- For Introduce a universal basic wealth system that grants individuals a capital endowment at birth (Jun 5, 2026)
- For Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen (Jun 5, 2026)
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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Brian ArmstrongCoinbase cofounder and CEOvotes Against and says:AI doomers say if we build AI we might die. But they have it backwards. [...] AI is helping us solve these. Slowing progress doesn’t keep us safer, it guarantees more preventable deaths.
AI Verified source (Sep 23, 2026)Brian Armstrong · statements & votes- Against AI will create more jobs than it destroys (Jul 25, 2026)
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Donald J. TrumpU.S. President (2025–present)votes Against and says:
The United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme of control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now – hereinafter officially called super intelligence.
AI Verified source (Sep 23, 2026)Donald J. Trump · statements & votes- Against Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached (Sep 23, 2026)
- Against AI poses an existential threat to humanity (Sep 14, 2026)
- Against Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely (Sep 13, 2026)
- For Introduce a universal basic wealth system that grants individuals a capital endowment at birth (Jun 5, 2026)
- For Frontier AI labs should be required to contribute a share of their equity to a national fund that pays a dividend to every citizen (Jun 5, 2026)
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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votes For and says:Developers should not be the sole judges of the systems they build. It’s like asking students to grade their own homework. Independent evaluations, conducted by government or qualified third parties, should be a standard part of the AI ecosystem.
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
535 opinions
Alan Turnley-JonesCEO of NTT Data Middle East and Africa, writing on AI governance, autonomy, and accountable deployment.votes For and says:As AI becomes more autonomous the real question for business leaders is where human judgment matters most. What should machines be allowed to do independently? What should trigger human intervention? And who remains accountable for the outcome? [...]...
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A Call for Control of Frontier AI ModelsJoint September 2026 declaration by 22 national leaders calling for international controls and oversight of frontier AI models.votes For and says:
At the same time, the rapid development of frontier AI models poses serious risks to safety and security if not appropriately managed. [...] We therefore welcome the recently launched initiatives that aim to manage the risks related to frontier techn...
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Patricia FahyNew York State Senator for the 46th District and sponsor of the 2026 TERMINATOR Act on frontier-AI safety oversight.votes For and says:
No large frontier developer, or contractor or subcontractor thereof, shall discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, discriminate, or otherwise retaliate against an employee or contractor because such employee or contractor, based upon a reasonab...
more AI Verified source (Sep 18, 2026)Patricia Fahy · statements & votes -
George BalstonStrategic Adviser to the Alan Turing Institute and co-founder of AVERI; former UK government researcher, data scientist, and technical lead focused on AI, privacy, and government technology.votes For and says:
Open-weight models introduce new and unique risks – they provide near-frontier capabilities which could be used for criminal purposes, are widely available to anyone who intends harm, and are easier to misuse. [...] Major frontier AI companies such a...
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
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Alessandro CrimiProfessor at AGH University of Krakow; researcher in AI, computer science, and health economics.votes For and says:With AI, although potential compensatory mechanisms such as new tasks and productivity gains are promised, history cautions us that such benefits are neither automatic nor equitably shared. [...] Prominent tax scholars have argued that a new, targete...
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Patricia FahyNew York State Senator for the 46th District and sponsor of the 2026 TERMINATOR Act on frontier-AI safety oversight.votes For and says:
Before, or concurrently with, deploying a new frontier model or a substantially modified version of an existing frontier model, a large frontier developer shall include in the transparency report required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision, summari...
more AI Verified source (Sep 18, 2026)Patricia Fahy · statements & votes- For Grant whistleblower protections to AI safety researchers (Sep 18, 2026)
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Max MoranSenior Fellow at the Revolving Door Project focused on financial regulation, technology, antitrust, and campaign finance.votes For and says:
It seems likely that the answer looks more like setting standards for other businesses while ensuring courts and attorneys general hold AI businesses liable for foreseeable uses of their technology—including enforcing existing laws about hacking and ...
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Ben Bander AbudawoodOrganizational psychologist and HR academic researching AI in recruitment and human oversight.votes For and says:
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving recruitment from a largely human-administered process toward a socio-technical decision system in which algorithms source, rank, screen, assess, and recommend candidates. [...] It advances a risk-calibrated mode...
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Ban predictive policing
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Alternative Federal Budget Working GroupCollective author of the Canadian Alternative Federal Budget’s 2026–27 artificial-intelligence policy chapter.votes For and says:The act will employ the precautionary principle to prohibit the introduction of AI tools into high-risk settings, such as education, health care or the delivery of public services, unless there is clear evidence that they will not cause harm. Where h...
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