YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

Frontier model AI systems have the potential to be used for many good things. However, due to their massive computing power, they also could cause catastrophic events, such as cyberattacks or the system evading control by developers or users. In the ...

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

For years, I’ve been ringing the alarm bells about the dangers of a national surveillance state built on facial recognition technology. Now, we’re seeing Trump’s lawless federal agents deploy this technology on our streets across the nation as he tri...

When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...

As the authors present their findings through storytelling, the core argument that emerges is that the novel coronavirus may have been synthetically engineered, and the pandemic was possibly triggered by a lab leak due to poor safety protocols in the...

The White House last year revamped its COVID information webpage into a site promoting the lab leak theory. While the intelligence community hasn't reached a consensus, the CIA and FBI favor that theory. Scientists tend to favor the theory that the v...

Most peer-reviewed evidence suggests an animal origin of SARS-CoV-2, but doesn’t indicate when or where the spillover occurred.

Seems to me a complete Bayesian treatment would require explicit probability assessments, or at least sensitivity tests, for the full sequence [...] I can't see how a full Bayesian analysis wouldn't integrate, or at least sensitivity-test, these beha...

The arguments around covid origins seem largely to fall into an inference trap Andrew has termed premature collapse of the wavefunction. Rather than maintaining multiple hypotheses with different levels of credibility, there seems to be a desire to c...

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete.

Yet, current dietary guidelines lack individual-level personalization and do not account for potential inter- and intra-person variability in dietary responses, which can ultimately limit their effectiveness in improving health outcomes. Precision nu...

Indeed, studies in humans have demonstrated that individuals could be hypo-responders or hyper-responders to dietary cholesterol.

In nutrition research, confounding is an important challenge. Owing to the complexities involved in dietary interventions, such research is often subject to three types of confounders: measured confounders, unmeasured confounders, and time-varying co...

US adolescents consuming eggs, as primarily dishes or ingredients, had better compliance in meeting nutrient markers compared with nonegg consumers, highlighting associations between eggconsumption and nutrient intake.

Researchers are careful to note that country-level comparisons like this identify associations, not causes, and many factors beyond eggs differ between nations.

However, the aggregate data suggest that higher egg intake may function as a potential risk factor for cardiovascular complications and mortality.

Genetics play a big role in how eggs affect your cholesterol. Some people are more sensitive to dietary cholesterol. This can lead to higher cholesterol levels when they eat eggs.

The answer isn’t as simple as “good” or “bad.” It depends on which part of the egg you eat, how you cook it, what you eat it with, and who you are.

Consumers need the protections this legislation provides. It's past time to put these protections in place. Among the strengths of this legislation is the requirement for safe-by-design, a strategy all should use.

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves.

These sections require transparency and meaningful human oversight whenever employers use automated processes to make employment-related decisions in the workplace.

In 2023, the United States saw countless proposals to ban AI technologies, [...] hiring, [...] law soon must embrace AI; [...] prohibit human intervention [...]

Our focus is human-centered; using AI to increase productivity, strengthen companies, and give workers better tools to do higher-value work. When businesses operate more efficiently and grow, that translates directly into higher wages, more opportuni...

As AI is being developed, deployed, and integrated across industries, we're already seeing it have a measurable effect on the U.S. workforce, and we know that its impact is only going to grow. It's critical that everyone has access to accurate and ti...

Governor Gavin Newsom today issued an executive order directing California to prepare workers, small businesses, and communities for the economic disruption that artificial intelligence will bring to the workforce.

Human oversight must be intentionally built into AI adoption and day-to-day use, with clear roles and responsibilities for governance.

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.

Failure, in their eyes, means being left behind while AI automates large swaths of white-collar work – especially coding jobs, which until now have been a veritable licence to print money – and falling into the ranks of the permanent poor.

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.

Decades ago, when the internet began, no one imagined how many jobs it would create. The same is true for AI. Today, it is difficult to predict what kinds of jobs will emerge in this field. The future of work is not pre-defined; it will depend on our...

On 5 December 2024, the Council of Europe adopted the world's first legally binding international AI treaty, the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. And do you know what? Only 70 countries ...

If somebody says, 'This technology is so powerful that we need a global treaty to slow it down,' then I would say: Then take your foot off the accelerator yourself if you think it's moving too fast.

Artificial intelligence is already shaping the information we see, the jobs people apply for, the services we use, and the decisions that affect our daily lives. With the C.A.R.T. Act, Connecticut is choosing to lead with clear rules, public trust, a...

Congress has an opportunity to foster this innovation by adopting a regulatory approach that is careful, deliberate, and grounded in the realities of wage and hour compliance. That means resisting the temptation to impose prescriptive mandates that w...

Governments are miles behind; in my view, our Government need to step up. They can start by acknowledging the existential risk of advanced AI and joining the numerous UK parliamentarians - including many in this Room today - who have called for a pro...

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...