YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

So, from February 1 to February 16, are you telling me that you gathered all of this additional information? Because we know what your initial hypothesis was, or your initial conclusions were to start with before--you gathered every bit of this new a...

The first is a letter published in our commentary section in May 2021 from prominent researchers in the area of COVID-19 origins, led by virologist, Jesse Bloom. This letter called for a thorough investigation of a lab origin of COVID-19. When we pub...

I think the points you make are very well taken. I think a lot of those comments were made at a time when the world was a little different. We talked about the 2020 Lancet paper, and that did have a big impact, but it was at a time when the world was...

The early cases cluster around the wet market. [...] So that and the verified presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA samples in close proximity to animal DNA, is what we consider strong evidence. It's not proof. Proof is going to be extremely hard to obtain now,...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019, emerged in December 2019. Its origins remain uncertain. It has been reported that a number of the early human cases of coronavirus disease ...

What they did is to say we're going to prioritize our sampling in a specific section of the market. It's circular logic to say, well, we have more positive samples concentrated on the western side of the market when, according to the Chinese sources,...

If we look all over the kitchen for the good pie tin, and we do not find it, that *is* evidence that it's not in the kitchen. (Perhaps we took it to a friend's house when we brought a pie to a party, and it hasn't been returned.) Absence of evidence...

Weissman prefers a Bayesian approach, where you average over counterfactual realities, where one detail could have been different. [...] This process of averaging over different possibilities can go on forever, and no one agrees on which counterfactu...

Machines selecting and engaging their target and taking a life – without human control and judgment. That is morally repugnant. It is politically unacceptable. And it must be banned by international law.

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.

Eat less than seven eggs per week. People with type 2 diabetes or those with high cholesterol should eat no more than seven eggs per week. Research shows that eating eggs can raise LDL-cholesterol. In people with type 2 diabetes, eating more than sev...

The relationship between cholesterol in diet and cholesterol in blood is quite weak.

Create a single, dedicated talent hub, accompanied by 1-5 separate compute hubs;

A semi-distributed structure, with a few core facilities, leveraging members' comparative advantages. Core facilities—fewer in number than the participating states—are necessary to create a critical mass of talent. Similarly, distributed compute can ...

Coordinated deployment of existing, planned, and within-reach European and other bridge power AI compute capacity is likely to provide sufficient computational resources to produce frontier AI models in the next few years, although significantly more...

The multinational partnership should aim to minimize its use of compute located in non-member states and compute owned by foreign entities. Although it could begin by renting compute, this reinforces and creates substantial vulnerabilities over time....

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 ...

Our belief is that AI will largely augment human capability and not replace it. Creativity, judgement, communication and collaboration become much more important, because they leverage the benefits of human capability rather than compete with technol...

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 and humanoid robots break that logic because they are general-purpose. Yes, the disruption will create new jobs. The problem is that AI and robots will be able to do those new jobs too.

Nevertheless, for some people — called “hyper-responders” — eating cholesterol will raise blood levels. Hyper-responders have genes, such as the APoE4 gene, that predispose them to high cholesterol. For people with this gene or individuals with high ...

In hypercholesterolemia, the effect of dietary measures on lowering cholesterol varies from one individual to another and depends on initial LDL-c level. They can reduce total cholesterol and LDL-c levels by 10–15%, or even more in hyper-responders. ...

The scientific evidence today largely supports the consumption of whole eggs for most healthy individuals. Eggs are a nutrient-dense food: the yolk contains essential vitamins such as A, D, E, and B12, as well as choline and healthy fats, while the w...

When it came to eggs, each half egg caused a 6% and 8% increased risk, respectively.

Jurisdictions around the globe are moving to adopt common-sense rules around labeling AI-generated content – it’s time for the U.S. to catch up and in fact lead the world with a disclosure and anti-circumvention model that should be the global standa...

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...

People under the age of 18 should not be able to interact with AI chatbots. These chatbots continue to put the lives and mental health of children at risk, and it is critical for Congress to act immediately.

Some kids are just too young to understand the difference between AI and a real person. [...] Remember, this is not a person... this is just something you download in the app store. It's not just our kids — these chatbots and the companies behind the...

AI chatbots that promote companionship pose significant risks to young and developing minds.

There's much more to do, including giving CAISI the authority to create the standards we need to know whether a frontier model is safe before it ships, not after something goes wrong.

However, it is important to differentiate regulating applications (which we need) vs. regulating the technology (which is ill-advised).

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.

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 ...

Under the status quo, AI systems are considered tools and the companies creating them are on the hook. This rightfully keeps humans accountable.