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There's suddenly a new possibility, a new opportunity, to use these tools, learn them, and start your own mini business. [...] Even if there is temporary job displacement to deal with, that sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to. 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)

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 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 Unverified source (2026)

Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view fundament... more Unverified source (2026)

I now see a path to actually avoid loss of control, at least unintended loss of control. With the work that I've been doing, I'm really convinced that there is a path. And it is not something that's going to take a decade; it is something that is ver... more Unverified source (2026)

The fact that things look aligned most of the time when they're functioning in their chatbot, or very limited 'Assistant' roles, is very little evidence that they will be adequately aligned when they work much more independently and have much greater... more Unverified source (2026)

Without collective action, artificial intelligence will deepen historical inequalities. [...] The data generated by our citizens, companies, and public bodies is being appropriated by a few conglomerates, with no equivalent compensation in terms of v... more Unverified source (2026)

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

My bill ensures a human is involved when deadly autonomous weapons are fired, AI cannot be used to spy on the American people, and that a human is on the switch to launch nuclear weapons. Unverified source (2026)

It causes a lot of cases to get solved. It’s another tool we’re now not going to have. That facial recognition can potentially solve homicides, [...] Unverified source (2026)

My prediction is by the end of 2028, it's more likely than not that we have an AI system where you would be able to say to it: 'Make a better version of yourself.' And it just goes off and does that completely autonomously. [...] What I'm looking at ... more Unverified source (2026)

Until some company or scientist says ‘Here’s the proof! We can definitely have a safety mechanism that can scale to any level of intelligence,’ I don’t think we should be developing those general superintelligences. We can get most of the benefits w... 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)

When the companies whose models are being reviewed help design the review, that is not oversight, it is theater. Unverified 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)

The other catastrophic possibility is humans using AI to construct an eventually worldwide dictatorship. A small group of humans could concentrate all the power that AI will have, especially if we achieve AGI or superintelligence. And it would be muc... more Unverified source (2026)

The simplest form of treaty would be something like this: countries agree that if they do develop advanced AI, it will be done in a safe way; that they wouldn't use their advanced AI to dominate others — that includes economically, but of course poli... more Unverified 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)

Imagine that you had a coalition of countries which together decide to develop AI safely and for the benefit of humanity and not to dominate each other. That will be a much better and safer world, because you break this competition problem that we ar... more Verified source (2026)

Middle powers share a structural condition: none of them will build frontier AI, all of them must import it, and each of them possesses enough institutional or industrial substance that the choices they make will genuinely matter far beyond their bor... more Unverified source (2026)

What is happening in Ukraine, in Gaza and the Palestinian territories, in Lebanon and in Iran illustrates the inhuman evolution of the relationship between war and new technologies in a spiral of annihilation. [...] so that it does not absolve humans... more Unverified 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)

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 AI Verified source (2019)

I am bracing for 2026 as the year of the slopacolypse across all of GitHub, Substack, arXiv, X/Instagram, and generally all digital media. Unverified source (2026)

8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone. Or, less formally, ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.'' I dub this: ``Linus's Law''. My origin... more AI Unverifiable source (2000)

The open web is something extraordinary: anybody can use whatever tools they have, to create content following publicly documented specifications, published using completely free and open platforms, and then share that work with anyone, anywhere, wit... more Unverified source (2026)

I’m in league with Doctorow and EFF on some of these things, but also find myself thinking they go much too far in other ways. At root, their work and advocacy raise a profound question: should there be any general right to exclude on digital platfor... more AI Unverifiable source (2020)

AI will soon become powerful enough to be used to repress citizens at unprecedented scale, and even to alter the balance of power among nations. [...] In this world, AI norms and rules are shaped by authoritarian regimes, and the best models enable a... more Unverified source (2026)

Facial recognition systems have generated a significant amount of controversy over their potential to create an unblinking, discriminatory surveillance system across the United States. A closer examination reveals that the best-crafted facial recogni... more Unverified source (2020)

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. Unverified source (2026)

Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia... more Unverified source (2026)