YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

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.

AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including larg...

So AI will create new jobs, and for a short and fortunate grace period it really will look like it is creating more than it destroys.

Safety by design must be non-negotiable. Workplace AI systems – whether used in hiring, productivity monitoring, or automated decision making – must undergo rigorous occupational safety and health and fundamental rights impact assessments before depl...

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

Dietary cholesterol is found in animal foods, including meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, and dairy products. [...] Strong evidence shows that eating patterns that include less dietary cholesterol are associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular diseas...

There are enough issues with this study that it’s hard to make strong conclusions about whether eggs are healthy or not.

For a healthy person, the recommendation for egg consumption with the yolk is one egg per day. This recommendation will not increase cardiovascular disease.

Eggs can be eaten every day. What may need to be limited more is the yolk, because that's where this cholesterol is found.

I think without a study like that, I’m not willing to make any conclusions about whether egg consumption is good or bad for you all.

The scientific reality is not in either of these extremes: eggs are still a food with very good protein quality, but at the same time, they have a high cholesterol and saturated fat content, which although not as harmful as once believed, are still a...

The bulk of the scientific evidence at this point supports a natural exposure at the market.

All he is saying in this Science article is that we need better, more comprehensive patient case and dated viral sequence data – at the time of first appearance of these viruses – to make this viral phylogenetic/evolutionary history approach more acc...

The data from the paper support the notion that Huanan market may have been just an amplifier of COVID-19 transmission, rather than the place where COVID-19 originated.

Make companies prove their systems are safe before release — at every step, the burden of proof should be on the companies, not the consumer or the public.

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

AI companies must be held legally responsible for the output that is created by their systems and pushed to users.

SB-1047 holds liable [...] the original developer of that model. It is impossible [...] to predict every possible use. SB-1047 will force developers to pull back [...].

It always seemed entirely plausible to me that Covid escaped from a laboratory, but that doesn’t mean that it was deliberate or the result of nefarious activity.

To be very clear, we're not pointing one way or the other in this particular conversation.

Coronavirus, probably not from a lab but let's not rule it out.

Building safe AI for the next generation requires thoughtful collaboration, careful research, and safeguards grounded in real-world expertise. Like so many parents, I think about the impact this technology will have on young people and how important ...

Repeated third-party audits, extensive reporting, and public disclosures may be manageable for large organizations, but for small and mid-sized employers — which make up most New York workplaces — these costs could be prohibitive.

Generative AI can be used to create highly realistic content that is difficult or impossible to distinguish from authentic material, including deepfakes. We are not interested in being deceived, and we are not interested in our children being deceive...

A media environment with more false and deceptive information is not a good thing for our society, but it is not the government's job to fix it. [...] Let's trust the American people, not the government, to decide for themselves how AI should be used...

Much of the evidence used to shape the recommendations comes from epidemiological studies—large population surveys that look for associations between diet and disease. While these studies can generate hypotheses, they cannot prove cause and effect. T...

The evidence that cholesterol in one egg a day is safe for most people comes from huge studies — many conducted here at Harvard Medical School — that have followed hundreds of thousands of people over decades.

While several studies have suggested that moderate egg consumption (1-2 eggs daily) does not significantly affect circulating cholesterol levels, there is considerable variability in individual responses, with some individuals metabolizing dietary ch...

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

The use of AI-generated deepfakes for the purposes of manipulating voters and disrupting elections is an attack on democracy.

A media environment with more false and deceptive information is not a good thing for our society, but it is not the government's job to fix it. [...] Let's trust the American people, not the government, to decide for themselves how AI should be used...

As AI-generated deepfakes surge across the internet - fueling fraud, harassment, and reputational harm - Senator Becker has introduced legislation to draw a clear line: abusing AI to impersonate real people will carry real consequences.

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...

The Code of Conduct provides a voluntary framework for those organizations to assess and mitigate risks, and also to disclose relevant information on their risk management. So these frameworks are the very ambitious a multi-stakeholder approach for c...