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Kanishka NarayanUK Minister for AI and Online Safety; Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Science, Innovation and Technologyvotes For and says:
The AI Biosecurity Lab will be a major new global institution bringing together world-leading scientific expertise to keep the country safe.
AI Verified source (Oct 24, 2026)Kanishka Narayan · statements & votes- For Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models (Aug 4, 2026)
- For The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth (Jun 19, 2026)
- Abstain AI will create more jobs than it destroys (Jun 19, 2026)
- Against Require frontier AI labs to conduct nearly all R&D publicly but keep the weights closed (Jun 10, 2026)
- For Governments should fund open-source AI safety tools and red-teaming infrastructure as public goods. (Feb 19, 2026)
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Yaim CooperMathematician studying the foundations of deep learning and AI’s societal impacts.votes For and says:
External evaluators should be embedded at AI companies, but they should not be restricted to AI safety researchers, and they should not be selected by the company being evaluated. Rather, they should represent communities across society, address a mu...
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
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Shirin HamidChief Information Officer and Director of the Information Technology Department at the International Monetary Fund; digital-governance and emerging-technology leader.votes For and says:The intelligent central bank is not the bank with the most AI, It is the bank whose AI can be trusted, and can ensure that any AI that touches the financial system is explainable, governed, secure, ethical, and human-supervised. [...] For every AI-in...
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Adam AuActing Co-CEO of Toys“R”Us Asia, data-privacy and technology-governance advocate, and adjunct associate professor at the University of Hong Kong.votes Against and says:
This presentation examines how agentic profiles strain the PDPO’s definitional gateways, rejects the fix of granting AI agents legal personhood, and proposes that protection should turn not only on who the data is about, but on what it can do.
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AI alignment is solvable
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Marius HobbhahnCEO and co-founder of Apollo Research; AI safety researcher specializing in scheming and pre-deployment evaluations of frontier AI systemsvotes Against and says:Fundamentally, we just do not know how to do alignment. If somebody came with a thousand-page document that explained exactly how to do everything, we couldn’t get a model to learn exactly that.
AI Verified source (Oct 22, 2026)Marius Hobbhahn · statements & votes- For AI labs should give independent evaluators employee-like access (Sep 30, 2026)
- For Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems (Sep 1, 2026)
- For We should adopt AI 2040 Plan A (Jul 11, 2026)
- For The U.S. and China should establish Mutually Assured Compute Destruction (Jul 11, 2026)
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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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Jon McCray JonesPolicy Analyst at the ACLU of Wisconsin.votes For and says:We Must End AI-Powered Mass Surveillance, Not Switch Vendors. [...] ALPR’s don’t need a marketing rebrand – they need to be banned.
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Slow down AI development
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Matteo WongStaff writer at The Atlantic covering science, technology, health, and artificial intelligence.votes For and says:The industry is moving too quickly to adequately guarantee its products are safe.
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Global Call for AI Red LinesInternational civil-society declaration and campaign, launched at the UN in 2025, seeking enforceable prohibitions on unacceptable AI uses.votes For and says:
A Global Call for AI Red Lines, launched at the UN General Assembly in September 2025, calls for categorical prohibitions on what an AI system may be built or used to do and presses governments to conclude a binding international agreement.
AI Verified source (Oct 22, 2026)Global Call for AI Red Lines · statements & votes- For Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance (2026)
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Shontel BrownU.S. Representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district.votes For and says:
We need labels on AI-generated election content and we need to hold accountable those who use AI to knowingly spread false information. Pairing the latest technology with old-school dirty tricks is a dangerous combination. I’m proud to introduce the ...
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Dawn ButlerLabour Member of Parliament for Brent East in the United Kingdom.votes For and says:
make provision about a requirement for consent to generate a likeness of a person using, or with the assistance of, artificial intelligence; to make further provision relating to that requirement; to make provision about civil action in circumstances...
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Reda FarranGlobal Markets Analyst and Head of Research at Finimize; former equity analyst at Fidelity; CFA charterholder.votes For and says:
AI could make the world a whole lot richer. But it could also put millions of people out of work while funneling even more wealth into the pockets of just a few tech giants. [...] The proposal is to tax AI companies’ profits or revenue and use the pr...
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
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Marjorie D. ParkerPresident and CEO of JobsFirst NYC, a workforce-development nonprofit.votes For and says:Currently, our tax systems rely heavily on human wages via payroll taxes. As AI replaces human roles, that tax revenue disappears, even as corporate productivity hits record highs. [...] If we do nothing, the wealth generated by AI will remain concen...
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Chuck SchumerU.S. Senate Majority Leadervotes For and says:
I urge the Commission to deny Club for Growth’s request to permit noncommercial political calls to wireless numbers using artificial or prerecorded voices, including AI-generated voices, without prior express consent. Removing that safeguard would in...
more AI Verified source (Oct 19, 2026)Chuck Schumer · statements & votes- For [🇺🇸 Congress, Jan 2026] Giving Congress power to block AI chip exports to adversaries (Apr 8, 2026)
- Abstain AI will create more jobs than it destroys (Apr 2026)
- For Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable (Jun 21, 2023)
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Dialog LabAI-powered workplace conversation-readiness platform that does not make employment decisions.votes For and says:
Dialog Lab does not generate, recommend, or support decisions involving any of the following: [...] Hiring decisions. Requests of this kind are declined, and users are redirected to the appropriate human review pathway.
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Jay ClaytonDirector of National Intelligence; former chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.votes For and says:
Well, let me be clear. Hacking of a government website, hacking of a private sector website — if your product does that, you are responsible.
AI Verified source (Oct 18, 2026)Jay Clayton · statements & votes- Against Slow down AI development (Oct 5, 2026)