YouCongress Polls

We should uphold a people-centered approach and the principle of AI for good, support the U.N. as the main channel, prevent the widening of the digital divide, and set clear guardrails for the military use and governance of AI. Unverified 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. AI Verified source (2026)

People are getting hurt, parents are getting deceived, and they need to pay for it. AI Verified source (2026)

This [...] legislation could [...] subjecting [...] to lawsuits [...]. The bill is overly broad [...] subject to litigation. [...] could subject online services to costly [...] lawsuits. Unverified source (2023)

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. AI Verified source (2026)

AI has incredible potential to transform society. At the same time, of course, there are risks that we must mitigate as a state, especially to young people. So I speak partly as a governor, but also as the father of teenage twins who grapple with thi... more AI Verified source (2026)

We want to make sure that kids are okay in the space. But if a kid or a group of kids, or a generation, let's say, is unable to access these types of tools now as they progress exponentially, you're essentially cutting off a huge benefit for them and... more AI Verified source (2026)

Cross-border AI incident infrastructure: institutional, technical, and legal arrangements that would allow national and international authorities to detect, share, and act on AI incidents and hazards together across borders. [...] Governments and ind... more AI Verified source (2026)

Defence now depends on cloud, data and AI. In the current context, Europe can no longer afford to depend on non-European technologies: it must have high-performance, sovereign alternatives. AI Verified source (2026)

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 ... more AI Verified source (2026)

Regulations relating to last-resort powers must establish requirements on data centre operators in relation to data centres used for the training, deployment or operation of AI systems, including relating to the possession or installation of technica... 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)

Overall, our impression is, as we hypothesized in our discussion of Claude's constitution, that teaching the principles underlying aligned behavior can be more effective than training on demonstrations of aligned behavior alone. AI Verified source (2026)

We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines—the so-called "alignment" of AI with human values—without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical framework... more AI Verified source (2026)

AI alignment is not something that works in theory but is difficult to put into practice. It's something that doesn't work in theory. AI Verified source (2026)

The two AI superpowers are gonna start talking. We're gonna set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward with best practices for AI to make sure non-state actors don't get a hold of these models. [...] The reason we are able to have wholesome d... more AI Verified source (2026)

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)

The Trump administration is, "We want zero regulations on AI." I think that's wrong. [...] I disagree with him on this. AI Verified source (2026)

Creating a patchwork of AI laws where 50 different states all have different goals is ultimately going to hurt little tech and startups more than anyone else. AI Verified source (2026)

Whereas historically it might have taken a more informed and persistent actor [to strip out safety features], nowadays it's much easier for the average person. AI Verified source (2026)

These studies, on their own, are insufficient evidence to demonstrate increased marginal societal risk from open foundation models. AI Verified source (2024)

Transparency is the greatest safeguard. [...] Open code and shared development will allow millions of young minds to make AI better and safer. AI Verified source (2026)

We will end up in a very concentrated world where there's like one to five giant networks of data centres owned by one to five companies, possibly in coordination with their governments. [...] If you've only got one to five companies and they each ha... more AI Verified source (2026)

The deeper strategic question is whether the first company to reach AGI will dominate everything, or whether four American companies and two Chinese companies will all get there within months of one another, each serving a distinct ecosystem. [...] I... more AI Verified source (2026)

The fruits of the AI infrastructure era are not the result of any single company alone. They are built on an industrial foundation accumulated collectively by the Korean people over the past half-century. [...] part of those gains should be structura... more AI Verified source (2026)

A public wealth fund or a robot tax are far heavier political lifts than simply regulating the industry a bit, and they are not just going to emerge as an organic alternative. On that read, this is comms work to provide cover for regulatory nihilism. AI Verified source (2026)

It is an oligarchy with better technology. [...] If the tech oligarchs continue in their mindset overall of downscaling government, that will impair the ability of government to facilitate the AI transition. AI Verified source (2026)

Yet if the federal government feels it has no say or no control, it will lunge and take over the whole thing. We thus want sustainable methods of perpetual interference that a) are actually somewhat useful from a safety perspective, and b) give gover... more AI Verified source (2026)

Having an unconditional series of payments from universal basic income would be an effective safety net for unemployed individuals. [...] Essentially, I'm worried that people who benefit from AI, after the fact, are going to say, 'Well, why do we hav... more AI Verified source (2026)

I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity increase (since the days of agriculture) didn't eliminate poverty. Verified source (2017)

Instead of universal basic income, how about we stop taxing nurses who make $75,000 a year? We don't need to give her universal income yet — let's just stop taking money away from her. AI Verified source (2026)

Theoretically, I think it's just really interesting to think about, because I'm interested in AI and the possibility that we might one day have AI systems that are actually conscious, actually thinking on par with human beings. AI Verified 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)