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Expert and Citizen Preferences on AI Governance
Sourced quotes and a participation layer keep expert and citizen preferences in plain view.
3136 sourced quotes · 70 policy proposals and claims
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AI will create more jobs than it destroys
55 opinions
For (34)Added 2d agoJeff BezosAmazon founder; Blue Origin ownervotes For and says:I know there’s a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on. I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.
AI Verified source (Jun 17, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Added 3mo agoJed KolkoSenior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; labor economistabstains and says:the evidence on how AI is affecting the labor market today is inconclusive, and claims about harmful impacts on particular groups of workers are premature.
AI Verified source (Mar 10, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (19)Added 1h agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:The financing for new models is coming from investors, and those investors are making a bet that the AI they're funding will be so good that employers can fire half their workers and replace them with AI, with the proceeds split between AI companies'...
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For (7)Added 5h agoThomas FreyFuturist, founder of the DaVinci Institutevotes For and says:
AI personhood isn't about recognizing AI as morally equivalent to humans. It's about recognizing that AI is functionally equivalent to corporations — powerful, consequential, and too complex to be managed through old legal frameworks.
AI Verified source (Feb 11, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Added 2d agoThe Agentic AI Constitutiongovernance framework documentabstains and says:This Constitution recognizes three categories of constitutional persons: Operators, Agents, and Affected Parties. Each has distinct rights and obligations that together form a governance ecosystem. The Operator deploys and configures; the Agent acts ...
more AI Verified source (Apr 3, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (29)Added 2d agoMichael PollanJournalist; bestselling nonfiction authorvotes Against and says:[...] have to think about granting them personhood, for example, the way we've granted corporations personhood. I think that would be insane.
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For (18)Added 9h agoAidan GomezCo-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" Transformer papervotes For and says:
This sentiment of renting AI from someone rather than owning it is a national security risk [...] You need to fully control it.
AI Verified source (Jun 23, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 1mo agoJeremy JurgensManaging Director of the World Economic Forum; head of its Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution / frontier technologiesvotes Against and says:Governments are on track to spend more than $1 trillion by 2030 chasing a sovereign stack, the full range of hardware and capabilities necessary to deploy and operate AI infrastructure. [...] In an interdependent system, the question shifts from how ...
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For (3)Added 17h agoBernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes For and says:
[...] and that is why, just last week, I introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. It would allow the American people, through their g...
more AI Verified source (Jun 22, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (14)Added 14d agoSamuel HammondDirector of AI Policy and Chief Economist at the Foundation for American Innovationvotes Against and says:Even if taking partial ownership of frontier AI companies can make sense on paper, in practice it's a recipe for political favoritism and corruption.
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For (6)Added 17h agoBernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes For and says:
[...] and that is why, just last week, I introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. It would allow the American people, through their g...
more AI Verified source (Jun 22, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (13)Added 17d agoJeong Hee-yongSecretary-General of South Korea's People Power Party (PPP); member of the National Assemblyvotes Against and says:[The national dividend proposal is] an anti-market idea that goes against market principles and is no different from socialist-style distribution.
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For (27)Added 1d agoAshley MoodyU.S. senator from Floridavotes For and says:
No one should have their voice, image, or likeness stolen and used in a fake video or AI-generated deepfake without their consent.
AI Verified source (Jun 18, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)Added 3mo agoJohn ColemanFIRE legislative counsel on AI speechvotes Against and says:A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...
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For (22)Added 3mo agoAmelia TylerVoice actor; Baldur’s Gate 3votes For and says:
to actually take my voice and use it to train something without my permission, I think that should be illegal.
AI Verified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 1d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:If we create a new right to control training, that will not give creative workers control over AI training... It will give our bosses control over AI training, because they will amend our standard contracts to demand that we sign away our training ri...
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For (12)Added 1d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes For and says:
Thanks to copyright restrictions that criminalize modifying apps without permission, there is no legal way for either drivers or riders to build comparison-shopping dashboards that bid out the same worker or job to multiple apps and choose from the c...
more AI Verified source (Jun 23, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (7)Added 8mo agoMoxie MarlinspikeSignal founder and cryptography researchervotes Against and says:One of the controversial things we did with Signal early on was to build it as an unfederated service. Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol‑based messe...
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AI might become conscious
38 opinions
For (23)Added 7d agoGeoffrey HintonGodfather of Deep Learningvotes For and says:Suppose I say to a chatbot, I saw the Grand Canyon flying to Chicago. And the chatbot says, that can't be right. The Grand Canyon is much too big to fly to Chicago. And I say, no, no, no, it was me flying to Chicago. While I was flying to Chicago, I ...
more AI Verified source (Jun 3, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (5)Added 2mo agoNed BlockSilver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural Science at New York University; leading philosopher of mind and consciousnessabstains and says:Computational functionalism claims that executing certain computations is sufficient for consciousness, regardless of the physical mechanisms implementing those computations. This view neglects a compelling alternative: that subcomputational biologic...
more AI Verified source (Oct 7, 2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (11)Added 1d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:A conscious being isn’t a word-guessing app that knows more words and has more computing power to guess with.
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
31 opinions
For (24)Added 14d agoScott AlexanderAuthor and psychiatristvotes For and says:AI has gone from "dumber than a child" to "expert level" in a few years in many domains. The gap between "expert level" and "above top geniuses" is smaller, so we expect it to take less time. This has been a pattern in fields like chess and Go, where...
more AI Verified source (Jun 11, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (7)Added 1d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
84 opinions
For (53)Added 3d agoBernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes For and says:And by the way, there's the existential threat that as AI becomes smarter than humans, it can [...] become independent and lead to catastrophic impacts.
AI Verified source (Jun 18, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 8mo agoTyler CowenProfessor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Overabstains and says:So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...
more AI Verified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (31)Added 1d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:These fears (or hopes) of a nascent superintelligence that will spontaneously arise if we just give enough computing power and training data to large language models are absurd on their face.
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For (20)Added 5d agoEuropean CommissionEU's executive bodyvotes For and says:
Deepfakes and AI-generated or AI-manipulated text published on matters of public interest must be clearly labelled.
AI Verified source (Jun 10, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 27d agoDavid InserraFellow for Free Expression and Technology at the Cato Institutevotes Against and says:A media environment with more false and deceptive information is not a good thing for our society, but it is not the government's job to fix it. [...] Let's trust the American people, not the government, to decide for themselves how AI should be used...
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
37 opinions
For (33)Added 5d agoJack ReedU.S. senator from Rhode Islandvotes For and says:To begin, we should formalize international norms for military and civilian uses of AI to regulate areas where full human control over the technology is essential. The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act is a practical first step toward e...
more AI Verified source (Jun 8, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (4)Added 1mo agoVinod KhoslaVenture capitalist; Khosla Ventures foundervotes Against and says:Personal view: I admire @AnthropicAI sticking by their principles but disagree with the principle itself. Putin won't fight fair so we should have autonomous AI weapons for sure.
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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone
26 opinions
For (26)Added 5d agoAnthropicAI safety research companyvotes For and says:Public input is critical to ensuring that powerful AI serves humanity’s interests.
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Ban predictive policing
26 opinions
For (23)Added 6d agoAmnesty InternationalHuman rights NGOvotes For and says:Risk profiling in migration, social security fraud detection and crime control must be banned. Predictive profiling and risk assessment systems, whether data driven or rules-based, should be banned in high stakes contexts even when humans make the fi...
more AI Verified source (Jun 10, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (3)Added 8mo agoDavid O’ConnorCFR Net Politics guest bloggervotes Against and says:That’s not to say that police departments shouldn’t use software to analyze their data. [...] Further development of the technology is inevitable, so local governments and police departments should develop appropriate standards and practices. [...] P...
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