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That branch of AI is lethal. We've got to do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans. Unverified source (2026)

We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models. We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead. Unverified source (2026)

If we fail in this task of preservation, digital technology threatens to alter radically some of the fundamental pillars of human civilization. [...] By simulating human voices and faces, wisdom and knowledge, consciousness and responsibility, empath... more Unverified source (2026)

Without provisions that allow for fair use and free expression online, this legislation would dramatically change the internet. Unverified source (2024)

We need a glass box approach instead of a black box, where safety rules can be viewed and verified. Accountability will become clearer, and ethical behaviour in business will also be encouraged. [...] AI platforms must keep their safety rules clear a... more Unverified source (2026)

Those compliance costs are merely the beginning. The bill, if passed, would feed California regulators truckloads of company information that they will use to design a compliance industrial complex. Unverified source (2025)

The path we're on right now is this race to replace, where you have a small number of incredibly powerful companies very openly saying that they want to build super intelligence, which, by definition, can replace every human job. [...] Polling sudden... more Unverified source (2026)

You have to do the hard work of thinking about the outcomes that you're trying to steer away from, as opposed to saying just stop until you're perfect. An iterative deployment process that gets AI tools into everyone's hands and then responds to thei... more Unverified source (2024)

As New York's first mom governor, the well-being and safety of our children has always been one of my top priorities. [...] These AI programs are designed to keep your kids glued to the screens at all costs. Some target children in the most vulnerabl... more Unverified source (2026)

Although age restrictions on chatbots designed for erotic or intimate interactions likely meet the “obscene for children” standard from Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, we oppose wide-ranging age restrictions, as they could hinder both children and a... more Unverified source (2025)

Congress is behind in putting left and right limits on the use of AI, and the first place to start should be at the Pentagon. My bill ensures a human is involved when deadly autonomous weapons are fired, AI cannot be used to spy on the American peopl... more Unverified source (2026)

To the second part of your question, I am strongly in favor of discussions internationally about things like norms. I think with this point, it would be counterproductive to have outright bans on things that people don't even fully understand what th... more Unverified source (2019)

What we should not do is preempt the states from taking necessary actions to protect their citizens while here in Congress, we do nothing to pass legislation ourselves. Unverified source (2026)

This was in response to a growing patchwork of 50 different state regulatory regimes that threaten to stifle innovation and jeopardize America's lead in the AI race. [...] In December, President Trump signed an Executive Order tasking us with the dev... more Unverified source (2026)

Generative AI systems do not fit that model. The user provides a prompt. The company designs the model, selects the training data, fine tunes the system and deploys it with parameters of its choosing. The resulting output is not third-party content. ... more Unverified 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)

For most of the last 40 years, the jobs and wages of blue-collar Americans were eroded by globalization and computer software, and most of the benefits from productivity gains went to the richest 10 percent. AI is now putting the jobs of millions of ... more Unverified source (2026)

As labor income taxation becomes less viable, the primary lesson is that consumption taxation must carry more fiscal weight. This shift aligns naturally with pro-innovation policies, as consumption taxes avoid penalizing the capital investments essen... more Unverified source (2026)

It will destroy humanities jobs. You went to an elite school, and you studied philosophy—I'll use myself as an example—hopefully, you have some other skill, that one is going to be hard to market. [...] There will be more than enough jobs for the cit... more Unverified 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)

As AI takes over their current work, most workers will probably get poorer or have to take additional jobs to maintain their current pay. [...] AI will make most of us poorer and a few fabulously wealthy — unless its productivity gains are allocated ... more Unverified source (2026)

These gatherings have time and again proven largely irrelevant and ineffective at advancing binding rights protections or the safeguards necessary in the context of immense AI investment. [...] States must urgently course‑correct the current AI traje... more Unverified source (2026)

With nuclear weapons, [...] they can't [...] in secret, but with developing new types of AI, it's much easier [...] So it's not enough to have an agreement. Unverified source (2018)

[AI] represents the greatest opportunity and danger humanity has ever created, and with next to no governance, alignment, or coordination. [...] Social media captured attention; AI programs behavior, shapes thoughts, and mediates reality. Unverified source (2026)

AI isn't going to destroy mankind. [...] Machines are incredible to power things but it is only in fantasy that they are malignant. Unverified source (2023)

The face and voice are very good. There is a slight misalignment between audio and video, but otherwise this is hyper-realistic and I don't think that most people would immediately know it is fake. [...] I don't think that faint, small font in the bo... more Unverified source (2026)

While there are many problems with this proposal, a few stand above the others and are fatal to this effort. First, the Commission lacks statutory authority to require disclosure or disclaimers on political advertisements that utilize “artificial int... more Unverified source (2024)

Because post-superintelligence abundance will be so great, agreements to share power and benefits should strongly be in the leader’s national self-interest: as we noted in the section on abundance, having only 80% of a very large pie is much more des... more Unverified source (2024)

For the last-invention story to hold, people would have to become unnecessary even as partners or supervisors to AIs. [...] We would need a world where practical know-how is fully transferable through digital channels and where responsibility can be ... more Unverified source (2026)

We don't know if the models are conscious. We are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious or whether a model can be conscious. [...] But we're open to the idea that it could be. Unverified source (2026)

We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to some influential, mainstream theories of consciousness but are not conscious according to other influential, mainstream theories of consciousness. We will not be in a position to know whi... more Unverified source (2026)

We need the whole spectrum or we have no mind [...] Computers can imitate important aspects of thinking-about (narrowly understood), but being is beyond them. Unverified source (2015)