YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

I believe we should tax AI tokens and robots. [...] The tax system nudges you toward replacing people with machines.

“Out of six popular policy fixes, we find that five of them fail,” says Tsoukalas. “In our model, only a tax on automation itself actually changes the calculus. Most of the policy debate assumes displacement will happen and focuses on picking up the ...

In the coming years, AI — and ultimately artificial general intelligence (AGI) — has the potential to drive one of the greatest transformations in history. We’re a team of scientists, engineers, ethicists and more, working to build the next generatio...

This is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that will mean collectively saying no to certain forms of progress...

Many leading companies are engaged in a single-minded pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). [...] Rather than racing to replace people, we should build AI tools that amplify human expertise and expand opportunity.

The Fourth Amendment was written specifically to stop the government from engaging in generalized surveillance and warrantless searches. Flock cameras don't just identify criminals — they create a database documenting where law-abiding citizens worsh...

This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...

The new legal framework must include a meaningful regulatory regime which operationalises principles such as necessity, responsibility, proportionality, transparency, accountability and lawfulness. These principles should then structure and constrain...

No state or local government should be mass tracking the daily movements of law-abiding citizens without a warrant. Mass surveillance has no place in a free society.

The use of live facial recognition in our public spaces is an extraordinary expansion of state power that currently exists in a legal vacuum. We are not Luddites on these Benches; we recognise the utility of technology, but we must ensure that live f...

The new legal framework must include a meaningful regulatory regime which operationalises principles such as necessity, responsibility, proportionality, transparency, accountability and lawfulness. These principles should then structure and constrain...

The bill is protecting whistleblowers if there's a foreseeable risk. [...] The protections may still be in place even if the actual damage did not result in that number because it's foreseeable risk.

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...

Total work expands even as individual task categories are automated. Human cognitive labor migrates toward higher-order activities where human judgment matters most.

We appear to be approaching the most significant reorganization of work in generations. This transition could create new opportunities, but it could also come with some costs.

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The Federal Communications Commission initiated this proceeding to protect consumer from unwanted AI-generated calls while ensuring that our rules do not hinder the potential benefits that AI can offer, including making telecommunications more readil...

Those responsible for the different phases of the AI system lifecycle should be identifiable and accountable for the outcomes of the AI systems, and human oversight of AI systems should be enabled.

Existing responsible AI governance frameworks mandate human oversight. Yet they share a critical assumption: that competent human overseers remain present and capable of exercising meaningful oversight and control over AI decisions. Accountability mu...

A lot of tools can tell you an AI agent is behaving strangely. Very few can act on that at the network layer, without waiting on a human to approve a ticket. That’s the piece we’re closing.

If an incident is detected or reported, you should always be able to ‘pull the plug’ and halt autonomous AI agent activity immediately.

The kill switch was the right metaphor for a moment that is already passing. The dimmer switch is closer to how regulated enterprises actually need to govern agents that are now part of how the work gets done.

We have decided to add NT$235.7 billion in expenditures to provide NT$10,000 in cash to each person next year, so the 'AI dividend can be shared by all.'

Rather than doing something immediately, it would be better first to have academic research and examination, and then apply the scholarly findings to reality. It is an issue that, in the later legislative process, must win public consensus and fully ...

Going one step further from the performance bonus demands and strikes by vested-interest unions at major companies such as SK hynix and Samsung Electronics, the Blue House policy chief is now arguing for a 'corporate profit distribution system' that ...

Any training runs above the Monitored Threshold in a signatory’s jurisdiction require a report to the CTB including code, data, and estimated FLOP.

Rather than creating entirely new channels, policymakers should focus on ensuring that existing channels can effectively incorporate information related to frontier models and agents. Building on trusted relationships will be faster and more effectiv...

Effective systems therefore need incentives for firms to disclose and correct problems, along with credible consequences when they fail to act.

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...

When data theft occurs inside 60 minutes, a 72-hour reporting window ceases to function as an effective defense mechanism. Instead, it becomes a post-mortem.

Recruitment decisions are made by authorised OpenPayd employees.

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.

Middle powers can successfully advance benefit-sharing agreements by leveraging the strategic interests of great powers, especially if they focus on gaining access to non-zero-sum resources, such as training data and software needed to deploy advance...

The answer isn't convergence for its own sake. We can push too hard on one thing. But if you have one standard, you could risk a lowest common denominator outcome that can cost us the innovation system as well and might have a risk on the national in...

We and others have therefore proposed requiring that third-party auditors verify the claims that AI companies make about their technology and evaluate AI systems and company practices against relevant standards.

SIIA raised particular concerns about applying traditional product liability frameworks to generative AI, regulating frontier models at the state level, and imposing premature audit and transparency requirements without established standards.