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Office of the Attorney General of FloridaFlorida state government office responsible for legal affairs, consumer protection, and law enforcement.votes For and says:
AI is not a silent tool. It answers the questions, picks the hour, chooses the place, and walks someone through the plan. When a product participates in a crime like that, the company that built it is not a bystander. A chatbot cannot be charged, but...
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[🇺🇸 Congress, Jan 2026] Giving Congress power to block AI chip exports to adversaries
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AnthropicAI safety research companyvotes For and says:The bills include the AI OVERWATCH Act, the Chip Security Act, and the MATCH Act. Anthropic supports all three bills and is ending its membership in ITI over the group's efforts to block them from passing.
AI Verified source (Sep 8, 2026)Anthropic · statements & votes- For AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone (Jun 12, 2026)
- For Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models (Jun 12, 2026)
- For Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment (Jun 10, 2026)
- For Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems (Jun 10, 2026)
- For Pausing AI at human-genius level to solve alignment is safer than either racing to superintelligence or halting entirely (Jun 4, 2026)
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Marco ArgentiChief Information Officer of Goldman Sachs, speaking publicly on safeguards for open-weight AI models.votes Against and says:
If safeguards are properly followed, businesses, including banks, should have enough guarantees to essentially run any model, regardless of where they come from.
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
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votes For and says:Governments should provide clear, simple explanations for how an AI system reaches an outcome. This includes: [...] the implementation of human oversight. [...] When an AI system influences or is used as part of administrative decision making, decisi...
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Mark BoostFounder & CEO of Civovotes For and says:
UK ministers having emergency powers to deactivate powerful AI systems and switch off the country's data centers is a necessary safeguard.
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Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed
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Jakub PachockiChief Scientist at OpenAI; leads OpenAI's research strategy and major model development effortsvotes For and says:Currently I believe that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer. I expect and hope for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until shared safety bars are ...
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Pacific Islands Forum LeadersCollective of heads of government and leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum, the region’s intergovernmental political and economic policy organization.votes For and says:
AI governance must promote transparency, accountability, safety and meaningful human oversight.
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Oleksandr YaremchukCo-Founder and CTO at Manifold Security.votes For and says:
A model that explains itself less isn't more aligned, it's just harder to catch when it goes wrong.
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Jeana LeeProgram Manager at the National Whistleblower Center.votes For and says:
The people closest to an emerging technology should not have to choose between protecting the public and protecting their careers.
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Samm SacksSenior fellow at New America focused on China, technology policy, cybersecurity, data governance, and artificial intelligence.votes For and says:
While outcomes are likely to be limited, opening a channel where both sides could share observations and jointly monitor AI safety incidents would be an important starting point.
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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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MoMo ZhouVice President of Communications at Flock Safety.votes Against and says:We ask them to work with the communities using this technology to decide what rules should govern it and not to spread misinformation or ban a critical public safety tool outright that is helping to make communities safer.
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John AzizBritish writer, data scientist, and independent commentator on politics, economics, and technology.votes Against and says:
But we didn’t pause development and permanently mandate that they couldn’t go faster than horses. Eventually—after trial and error—we developed better and safer cars, as well as road safety laws to prevent accidents, and legal provisions like driver’...
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Liina VahtrasManaging Director at Estonia's e-Residency programme.votes Against and says:
AI agents cannot hold citizenship or legal personhood, but they can be linked to natural persons in legally sound ways.
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Andrea RendaDirector of Research at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), leading its Global Governance, Regulation, Innovation and Digital Economy unit.votes For and says:
To remedy this situation, several proposals have been presented for an ambitious initiative that catalyses research and innovation around trustworthy AI solutions made in Europe and according to European values and principles.
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Justin SlaughterVice President of Regulatory Affairs at Paradigm; formerly served as a senior adviser at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and as chief policy adviser at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.votes For and says:
We need requirements on labs disclosing agent swarm exploits/events within 48 hours of lab staff gaining knowledge of them and we need them today.
AI Verified source (Sep 4, 2026)