YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

AI agents will be extremely good at putting together personalized packages aimed at specific Canadians — aimed at me or you — that will attempt to convince us of things that are not true. Sometimes, I worry that those agents may be working for some C...

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...

AI companions — including those products that allow or even cater to younger users — should not be used by anyone under the age of 18 years.

Children have given us a clear diagnosis of the problem. They aren't asking us to block AI innovation, but it shouldn't be a case of cleaning up the mess after harm has happened either.

But would I ban it for minors? There are many positive uses that we can imagine for kids with chatbots, and my concern is just the kind of “yes to this, no to that” world we can get into with bans.

It might be labelling synthetic media or having special rules during crises or election periods. It might be policies for impersonation.

We should ask ourselves an important question: does the problem require government regulation?

Advanced model weights can be high-consequence assets. If stolen or openly released without adequate safeguards, they may allow actors to remove safety filters, fine-tune models for harmful uses, or reproduce capabilities that would otherwise remain ...

A safety regime that restricts legitimate defenders, while capable models remain available for attackers, creates an asymmetric disadvantage.

Livelihood risks—together with the potential for AI-powered benefits—are significant and sweeping enough to warrant a rethink of the role and footprint of human labor, wealth or “gain” sharing, and the social contract. This includes, but need not be ...

Rather than doing something immediately, it would be better first to have academic research and examination, and then apply the scholarly findings to reality. It is an issue that, in the later legislative process, must win public consensus and fully ...

Going one step further from the performance bonus demands and strikes by vested-interest unions at major companies such as SK hynix and Samsung Electronics, the Blue House policy chief is now arguing for a 'corporate profit distribution system' that ...

Tax policy can be an important tool to generate tax revenue and address growing inequality in the age of AI. Economists have studied how tax policy can actively shape labor markets. Daron Acemoglu, Andrea Manera, and Pascual Restrepo found the U.S. t...

Raising the cost of all those innovation- and productivity-enhancing uses of computing would unequivocally harm American productivity, innovation, and global competitiveness. Knowingly imposing these costs on ourselves because of concerns about certa...

Without a shared governance baseline, AI in our sector might develop in proprietary and uneven ways, deepening the very divides the panel describes and leaving smaller and developing country operators behind.

The answer isn't convergence for its own sake. We can push too hard on one thing. But if you have one standard, you could risk a lowest common denominator outcome that can cost us the innovation system as well and might have a risk on the national in...

Because we have the same rules applicable everywhere in the world. No matter if you take a plane in Kabul or if you take a plane in New York, the same safety rules apply everywhere. This is exactly what we need to make AI a success for business and f...

A one-size-fits-all approach to AI governance will not be effective. We all face different risks, priorities, levels of digital development, and regulatory environments. Effective governance requires shared principles that can be implemented flexibly...

MAP-AI, a new control-plane system architecture for aligned decision-making under uncertainty, enforces alignment through Monte Carlo estimation of outcome distributions and admissibility-controlled policy selection rather than static model-level con...

If it takes over that's what will happen. [...] We don't know how to do that. We don't even know if it's possible.

The panel cautions that there is no scientific guarantee that autonomous agents will follow their instructions and that evidence of them departing is already accumulating. Accountability and oversight must therefore be built by design and not reconst...

Promising directions we’ve identified so far include developing the capacity to detect and respond to AI systems acting outside their developers' control, and building infrastructure for containing or shutting down such systems.

If you’re relying on a ‘kill switch’ to stop an AI agent, you’ve already made a fundamental mistake. A properly governed agent is simply never handed the task, so there is nothing to kill.

Large language models simply shouldn’t be used for targeting, since they will inevitably hallucinate and contribute to civilian harm.

The Government strongly believes that there is a need to maintain meaningful human control of all weapons systems, including any systems that may be developed. Our position is that, for such systems to comply with international humanitarian law, cont...

I need a reliable, steady partner that gives me something, that'll work with me on autonomous, because someday it'll be real and we're starting to see earlier versions of that.

Congress needs to listen to the American people and act urgently to stop the unholy alliance of AI and data brokers to fuel war and mass surveillance.

This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...

When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...

Pause AI development. It is not too late to avoid disaster. Stop building machines that humans cannot control ... Let me be very clear: If you do not take appropriate action now, my colleagues and I in the U.S. Senate will.

But we don't think it makes sense for us to stop engaging with AI research, AI safety, and most likely lose relevance as an innovator who understands the frontier of the technology, in a scenario where others are going ahead and we're not actually co...

International governance thus requires some way to track these high-end chips. [...] Chips can be designed or modified to remotely confirm their location. [...] Regulators can require chip manufacturers to install such mechanisms.

Enacting the current draft of the Chip Security Act (CSA) would erode trust and endanger the Administration’s vision to diffuse U.S. AI technology. Specifically, burdensome rules on U.S. companies not required for foreign competitors risk incentivizi...

Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed A.I., with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?