YouCongress Polls

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)

You could imagine a world in which AI systems and robots and so on can produce everything so cheaply that humans who have to compete with them won't even be able to afford a subsistence income. Unverified source (2026)

For middle powers, the logic of banding together is undeniably compelling at a time of escalating great power coercion. [...] It would be a distributed or collaborative sovereignty in which AI infrastructure, capabilities, and governance decisionmaki... more AI Verified source (2026)

If history is any guide, the larger economic prize may lie not in producing these tools, but in applying them across the wider economy. [...] Europe is not leading the way in developing frontier AI models, but providers of digital services in Europe ... more AI Verified source (2026)

Independent, rigorous measurement science is essential to understanding frontier AI and its national security implications. [...] These expanded industry collaborations help us scale our work in the public interest at a critical moment. AI Verified source (2026)

Finally, it’s not clear how well some of the act’s provisions reflect the current state of the AI ecosystem. The act demands that labs hire an independent third party to complete an annual audit of their protocols to ensure compliance with the act. T... more AI Verified source (2025)

I'm encouraged that the framework carves out whole bunches of state laws, you know, particularly the children's safety laws. Those should be allowed to remain in place no matter what. AI Verified source (2026)

I'm disappointed [the Big Beautiful Bill] didn't include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation. While there is a role for AI regulation, it is when the technology is new and poorly understood that lobbyists are most likely to succee... more Unverified source (2026)

AI requires industrial mobilisation on a scale not seen in generations: huge investments in energy, semiconductors, computing infrastructure and capital. [...] The US is on track to spend about five times more than Europe on building data centres by ... more AI Verified source (2026)

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

I don't believe we should outsource the governance of technology to the tech companies themselves. [...] [Tech companies] don't wake up in the morning thinking, what can I do today to advance public interest? What can I do for democracy? The companie... more AI Verified source (2026)

Fully autonomous weapons means that you can press one button and kill one million people. We're moving very quickly towards this world. AI Verified source (2026)

At first, lethal autonomous weapons systems that cannot guarantee use in conformity with international humanitarian law — that is, systems that are intrinsically indiscriminate; systems whose effects cannot be limited, anticipated and controlled; sys... more AI Verified source (2025)

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. Unverified source (2026)

[The kill switch] helps in cases where the government has reason to believe super-intelligent AI, AI that can autonomously compromise national security, is being developed on UK soil. [...] The UK is not truly sovereign on AI if it can't pull the plu... more AI Verified 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)

We did our most in-depth model welfare assessment yet for Claude Mythos Preview. We're still super uncertain about all of this, but as models become more capable and sophisticated we think it's an increasingly important topic for both moral and pragm... more Unverified source (2026)

Large language models can be thought of as advanced role-players. They are really good at adopting roles based on what they've learned from their training data. That can include playing the role of a conscious robot. [...] If you have an emotional co... more AI Verified source (2026)

We see consciousness in AI the same way we see faces in clouds. AI Verified source (2026)

Congress has a moral obligation to stand with the American people and stop the expansion of these data centers until we have a framework to adequately address the existential harm AI poses to our society. AI Verified source (2026)

I come from the position of saying that moratoriums will not work. But we can work in co-operation with other nations that have already started regulating, such as South Korea and Australia, as well as work with our AI Security Institute in the Unite... more AI Verified source (2026)

Of course AI will absolutely eliminate some tasks and compress some roles, but the claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. [...] The future is cheaper intelligence, bigg... more AI Verified 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)

In recent years, artificial intelligence systems have increasingly taken control of the production of texts, music and videos. This puts much of the human creative industry at risk of being dismantled and replaced with the label 'Powered by AI,' turn... more AI Verified source (2026)

I think over time we would need to figure out global frameworks. AI Verified source (2023)

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)

Nevertheless, none of these forums can replace the universality of the United Nations in ensuring multilateral, inclusive, and development-oriented international governance of artificial intelligence. AI Verified source (2026)

[This is] a significant overreach of the U.N.'s mandate and competence. We will not cede authority over AI to international bodies that may be influenced by authoritarian regimes seeking to impose their vision of controlled surveillance societies. Unverified source (2026)

AI incident reporting requirements are emerging in regulation and policy, yet no operational criteria exist for determining when a detected AI incident warrants escalation beyond national handling to international coordination. [...] For escalation t... more AI Verified source (2026)

AI chatbots can be powerful tools for learning, but right now, millions of children are using them with no guardrails and no guarantee of safety. As a mother, I believe it is our obligation to create a future for our children where AI is safe by desi... more AI Verified source (2026)

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves. Unverified source (2026)