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AI is ultimately going to result in more job gains than losses, but in the process it’s going to break down millions of careers.

We all know generative AI will destroy certain jobs and will create new jobs.

We pretend that we're going to get this massive productivity gain, and everyone will be employed the same. That's just not true.

Employment decisions still require accountable human judgment.

Hence, under the overarching ambit of the National AI Council and together with tripartite partners, we are studying the use of AI tools by businesses and its impact on employment, before deciding the most appropriate approach for Singapore.

The requirement of human review is one of the most burdensome compliance elements for employers, particularly in comparison to states that allow alternative processes rather than human review.

The idea of surveillance that overreaches legal mandates has been an ongoing concern, but with AI, it gets supercharged. It happens at scale, and I think updated rules are needed.

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. ...

You want to make them bear that risk. If they do, they’ll have all the incentives they need to reduce risk.

Existing legal principles, such as under tort and contract law, can be applied by our courts to assess and determine liability in appropriate cases. That being said, we share the concerns raised by the Member, and will continue to study this issue, i...

States should not be permitted to penalize AI developers for a third party’s unlawful conduct involving their models.

Alongside with the secure tool, the AI Office commits itself to a high standard of confidentiality and has documented internal procedures to maximise the protection whistleblowers' identities.

Connecticut already has strong whistleblower laws that protect employees from retaliation. [...] creating a separate, AI-specific whistleblower regime could lead to confusion, duplication, and unintended consequences for employers operating in highly...

AI chatbot companies cannot use minors’ personal data to train an AI chatbot.

Restricting access to training data, whether through mandatory compensation, expanded opt-out rights, or onerous compliance requirements, can have the effect of restricting AI development itself.

We need regular mandatory independent safety testing and oversight, mandatory disclosure of security incidents, and international cooperation to keep people safe from absolute disaster.

This bill contains a critically flawed mandatory third-party audit requirement that creates an impossible compliance obligation on an unrealistic timeline.

The architecture of the AI age is being drawn right now, and more than half the world’s nations are not holding the pen. What we face is more than an implementation gap. It is a question of equity and of who shapes the rules of the AI age, and who mu...

Every critical choice made by an automated system must have human oversight, and speed and efficiency should not take precedence over the impact on human lives.

Industry discourse often presents “Human-in-the-Loop” as the ultimate safeguard for AI deployment, yet this is a dangerous fallacy in high-velocity agentic systems.

You can’t patch a released, open-weight model. This is the property that breaks the assumptions of the prior model of responsible disclosure. Open-source software can be patched in place; a deployer updates and the hazard closes. An open-weight model...

It is unquestionably both. We can use the frontier models but also open weight models to prove a solution which gives defenders powerful capabilities and on their terms.

While respecting security, data protection and intellectual property rights, we encourage member economies to support open-source models and projects that employ strong security assurance through development and deployment.

I think people have the right to know if they’re getting a political phone call that is not the person on the line and it’s generated by AI.

We should ask ourselves an important question: does the problem require government regulation?

We support the bipartisan CONSENT Act, which empowers individuals to take legal action against those who knowingly send nonconsensual explicit content.

A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...

We need regular mandatory independent safety testing and oversight, mandatory disclosure of security incidents, and international cooperation to keep people safe from absolute disaster.

Timelines for incident reports are often set with well-intentioned urgency, but if they implicitly assume that root-cause analysis or full impact assessment has already been conducted, they will either produce premature and unreliable reports or plac...

I appreciate the intent behind the amendments and the shadow Minister’s position of understanding but not supporting them, which I share.

We need binding commitments with transparency regarding AI and mandatory obligations for disclosure of resources of consumption.

A one-size-fits-all approach to AI governance will not be effective. We all face different risks, priorities, levels of digital development, and regulatory environments. Effective governance requires shared principles that can be implemented flexibly...

Interoperability should not be confused with regulatory uniformity. The compatibility of governance-free approaches should enable dialogue among different national policy frameworks. It should not restrict the right of states to adopt their own regul...

We remain concerned that Illinois would effectively be requiring private actors to make highly subjective determinations requiring AI safety compliance without established national standards, certifications, or clear regulatory guardrails.