YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

As more and more children and teenagers are targeted by dangerous and predatory AI chatbots, it's imperative that Congress take action to protect children and teens online. The GUARD Act would help to protect minors from AI chatbots that target them ...

Some kids are just too young to understand the difference between AI and a real person. [...] Remember, this is not a person... this is just something you download in the app store. It's not just our kids — these chatbots and the companies behind the...

AI chatbots that promote companionship pose significant risks to young and developing minds.

Businesses in Rhode Island are already using AI and electronic monitoring tools to surveil and discipline workers in a way no human supervisor could. If you’re making these consequential decisions over workers’ lives, there needs to be disclosure, me...

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

Federal laws shouldn’t become optional just because technology is new. AI is already helping make life-altering decisions for millions of Americans, but too often, it’s operating in a gray area. My Sectoral AI Governance Act gives federal agencies cl...

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 [...].

Allowing federal agencies to buy or compile, analyze, and use large profiles of information about Americans without limits, oversight, or accountability undermines the public’s faith in our system of governance and is dangerous for democracy.

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. ...

The potential dangers tied to overreliance on artificial intelligence are very real, as we have seen online chatbots play roles in numerous tragedies across the nation. We must do everything we can to keep children and vulnerable residents away from ...

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves.

If the DEFUSE proposal had been patented, Covid would violate that patent. That is how closely the genome of the virus matches what is proposed in that grant.

The origins of COVID-19 remain uncertain. A lab-associated incident is plausible; so is natural spillover.

The majority of virologists and epidemiologists who have examined the question conclude that the available evidence favors a natural spillover origin. No credible evidence links NIH-funded research to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.

This legislation enacts critical protections against the most catastrophic risks that advanced AI systems pose to public safety. Artificial intelligence is among the most significant technological developments of modern time. It has the potential to ...

Finally, it’s not clear how well some of the act’s provisions reflect the current state of the AI ecosystem. The act demands that labs hire an independent third party to complete an annual audit of their protocols to ensure compliance with the act. T...

Bayesian methods have grown in popularity in the past few decades with the advent of improved statistical software and computing power. But Levin’s paper is the first to apply the technique to the COVID origins debate.

The arguments around covid origins seem largely to fall into an inference trap Andrew has termed premature collapse of the wavefunction. Rather than maintaining multiple hypotheses with different levels of credibility, there seems to be a desire to c...

The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete.

Evidence of zoonosis has surfaced. That's in addition to the epidemiology data, which show the earliest COVID-19 cases cluster around the market, even those without a known connection to the market.

Both sides are gathering evidence to support their case, yet neither can fully rule out the possibility put forward by the other.

It challenges the prevailing narrative that the Huanan market served as the origin of the virus, drawing attention to negative SARS-CoV-2 tests in animals, the absence of precursor sequences, the dominance of lineage B, and evidence of viral circulat...

As AI and autonomous systems redefine warfare, we must ensure that our values and control are not sidelined. This bill ensures that a human operator can always oversee, override, or shut down an autonomous weapon. By pairing strict safety reviews wit...

Personal view: I admire @AnthropicAI sticking by their principles but disagree with the principle itself. Putin won't fight fair so we should have autonomous AI weapons for sure.

Americans deserve to know if what they’re seeing, reading, or hearing was made by a machine. This is a commonsense, bipartisan fix — we’re simply requiring that AI content come with a built-in label, so platforms, journalists, and everyday people can...

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...

AI is a powerful engine of innovation, and I want to see it flourish, but not without accountability and not without human oversight. The rule of law should apply to this new frontier. This legislation ensures that when something goes wrong with a hi...

Personal view: I admire @AnthropicAI sticking by their principles but disagree with the principle itself. Putin won't fight fair so we should have autonomous AI weapons for sure.

Observational studies cannot determine cause and effect relationships and, hence, the impact of a single dietary or lifestyle factor.

US adolescents consuming eggs, as primarily dishes or ingredients, had better compliance in meeting nutrient markers compared with nonegg consumers, highlighting associations between eggconsumption and nutrient intake.

Researchers are careful to note that country-level comparisons like this identify associations, not causes, and many factors beyond eggs differ between nations.

This is where personalized nutrition will help refine broad guidelines to help people eat a diet that works with how their bodies metabolize, or process, foods. For example, if your genes put you at increased risk of heart disease, dietary changes ca...

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

Eat less than seven eggs per week. People with type 2 diabetes or those with high cholesterol should eat no more than seven eggs per week. Research shows that eating eggs can raise LDL-cholesterol. In people with type 2 diabetes, eating more than sev...

Genetics play a big role in how eggs affect your cholesterol. Some people are more sensitive to dietary cholesterol. This can lead to higher cholesterol levels when they eat eggs.

The answer isn’t as simple as “good” or “bad.” It depends on which part of the egg you eat, how you cook it, what you eat it with, and who you are.