YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

One of the things we talk about as sociologists who study work is this idea about work moving from the career to the job to the gig. And AI makes it even easier to do that.

AI could hollow out jobs, reshape them gradually, create entirely new ones—or do all three at once. The case for starting to act now doesn’t depend on knowing which.

The likelihood is that AI will not so much replace jobs, as make certain tasks easier and quicker for some people.

As AI capabilities continue to advance, we believe effective safety frameworks should continue to be developed through democratic institutions, informed by technical expertise and broad stakeholder input, to promote accountability and public trust.

The new law adds a new provision in the AI act, prohibiting AI practices regarding the generation of non-consensual sexual and intimate content or child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

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...

As this digital revolution progresses, the job economy is changing, but the mantra that AI is taking our jobs is simply not correct and potentially fueled by an undercurrent of classicism.

The available evidence does not yet provide clear answers to many of the questions that matter most for policy.

Without these investments, AI risks widening inequality, displacing workers and shifting wealth from labour to capital rather than creating sustainable good jobs – those with fair compensation, worker autonomy and a reliable path to social dignity.

We commend the revised Hiroshima AI Process Reporting Framework and recognize it as a key multi-stakeholder platform to advance coherence across AI risk assessment, reporting and mitigation assessment approaches, as well as international efforts to f...

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...

Global technological and economic systems must promote stability, inclusion and sustainability, not just efficiency. Third is ongoing multilateral oversight. Governance needs to be adaptable, driven by real-time data and coordinated across borders th...

We should build on existing international work rather than creating frameworks from scratch.

Ensuring that external evaluators meet appropriate independence and qualification requirements is critical for the credibility and effectiveness of this evaluation framework.

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.

AI whistleblowing is largely unprotected by existing whistleblower laws, which focus on outright illegal activity. Chair Grassley’s AI Whistleblower Protection Act would be a significant improvement on this status quo.

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...

As AI systems become more capable, autonomous, and widely deployed, ensuring they remain under human control becomes critical. The Government’s world-leading AI Security Institute (AISI) is examining how to ensure advanced AI systems follow human goa...

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.

This standard establishes mandatory requirements for human oversight of AI systems that make or substantially influence consequential decisions affecting natural persons. It applies to AI systems in production where the system's output directly deter...

As with any technology, the need for regulation depends on how it is deployed, the nature of harm that may be caused, and whether existing measures are effective in addressing those harms. Where existing measures are assessed to be inadequate and a s...

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

Accountability generally runs to the company and its people. Who is accountable for an AI agent’s actions or omissions is one of the key questions that courts and regulators will continue to grapple with. But principles of agency, tort, and contract ...

It’s a very thorny area. It’s uncharted territory. There’s a good argument to be made on either side.

I just don’t think the developer is in a position to know exactly how their product is being used. Just as Microsoft isn’t held liable when a money launderer uses an Excel spreadsheet, AI companies shouldn’t be blamed when a criminal uses their techn...

We could even reach a point where resources are no longer the limiting factor for human progress, leading to an amazing new era of abundance.

The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This i...

We need to course correct immediately and work to prevent the development of superintelligent AI, and we need to do this internationally, which will take time. We cannot afford to wait for more evidence that the risk is imminent.

One rather draconian solution to all these problems, proposed earlier this week by Andrea Miotti, would be to create an “International Treaty to Ban Superintelligence.” Why worry about what to do with the latest and greatest models if you can make th...

Autonomous weapons that select and engage human targets without meaningful human control must be prohibited absolutely, and all other autonomous weapons must be subject to binding regulation.

Artificial intelligence will continue to shape the battlespace of the future, and our military must be equipped with every tactical and technical advantage it needs to win in this complex environment. Simultaneously, we must ensure the Department of ...

So far, even the most expert scientists and philosophers writing about this cannot be 100 per cent sure whether these models are conscious or not.

Computational functionalism claims that executing certain computations is sufficient for consciousness, regardless of the physical mechanisms implementing those computations. This view neglects a compelling alternative: that subcomputational biologic...

A conscious being isn’t a word-guessing app that knows more words and has more computing power to guess with.