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I urge the Government to take three steps: first, to publicly recognise that superintelligence poses an extinction threat to humanity; secondly, for the UK to prevent the development of superintelligence on its soil; and, thirdly, for the UK to resum... more Unverified source (2026)

Developing superintelligence is not like playing Russian roulette; it is more like undergoing risky surgery for a condition that will otherwise prove fatal. [...] Models incorporating safety progress, temporal discounting, quality-of-life differentia... more Unverified source (2026)

Many people working in AI feel like they're living within a lie. Privately, they know that the current reckless pursuit of superintelligent AI poses an extinction threat to our species, but publicly they keep quiet so as to not rock the boat and risk... more Unverified source (2026)

Computer scientists often aren't good judges of the social and political implications of technology. They are so focused on the AI's mechanisms and are overwhelmed by its success, but they are not very good at placing it into a social and historical ... more Unverified source (2026)

Without data portability, interoperability, and shared access, the AI ecosystem will calcify around a small group of entrenched incumbents who control the essential asset. Unverified source (2026)

The big winners here are not going to be tech companies. The winners are going to be the broader industry that uses this commodity [...] that, by the way, is abundant. Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. Unverified source (2026)

There are special interest groups out there right now with millions of dollars funded by the very people who will profit off the sale of these chips and others that [...] are waging a social media campaign war [...] against this bill, which the chair... more Unverified source (2026)

The bill is an attempt to reclaim congressional agency over those choices. Unverified source (2026)

President Trumps authority is clear. The Commander in Chief has ultimate authority on foreign affairs. Democrats and their Deep State partners are purposefully misleading House Republicans to strip him of this authority... America must win the AI Col... more Unverified source (2026)

Congress should mandate audits of A.I. developers' safety claims and processes [...] requiring that they be conducted by independent expert bodies overseen by the government. Unverified source (2026)

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... more Unverified source (2025)

We don't have to be passengers in the AI revolution, we can be drivers. Right now, policy is focused on speeding up AI adoption, but not on where it's taking us. Without a clearer direction, we risk ending up with more inequality, more concentrated p... more Unverified source (2026)

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

The lack of control of AI is one of the things that has been overhyped. [...] We can't control AI exactly. And it will sometimes be buffeted around by random factors. But with the right engineering, we can control them well enough for most applicatio... more Unverified source (2026)

I have heard zero people advocating "make AI do our ASI alignment homework" show they understand the elementary computer science of why that's hard: you can't verify inside a loss function whether a proposed ASI alignment scheme is any good. Unverified source (2026)

Humans and LLMs fail in distinct ways, and so requiring human + LLM 2-of-2 confirmation to take risky actions (and allowing human override only with much more friction and/or time delay) is much safer than fully relying only on either one. Unverified source (2026)

The immediate danger is not that machines will act without human oversight; it is that human overseers have no idea what the machines are actually "thinking." State-of-the-art AI systems are essentially "black boxes." We know the inputs and outputs, ... more Unverified source (2026)

"AI becomes the government" is dystopian: it leads to slop when AI is weak, and is doom-maximizing once AI becomes strong. But AI used well can be empowering, and push the frontier of democratic / decentralized modes of governance. Unverified source (2026)

I do think you want to actually have very good ways to look inside the mind of the AI. [...] Anthropic's done a good job of this actually, being able to look inside the mind of the AI. Unverified source (2026)

[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option; Unverified source (2019)

Parents deserve both clarity and control over how their children interact with AI chatbots, which are becoming more integrated into their education and everyday lives. Our bipartisan bill provides commonsense guardrails that prioritize kids' safety, ... more Unverified source (2026)

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves. Unverified source (2026)

All of us within a small number of years will have a medical assistant that's essentially free to operate. [The same will apply to legal and educational assistants, bringing] substantial quality for free for everyone in society. Unverified source (2026)

I do not believe there's going to be like a singular, identifiable point where the economy is going to take off, and there's going to be abundance. [Whether AI's benefits are widely shared] is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

I think it's now. I think we've achieved AGI. [...] It is not out of the question that a Claude [model] was able to create a web service, some interesting little app that all of a sudden, you know, a few billion people used for 50 cents, and then it ... more Unverified source (2026)

Normally we talk about AI as a thing. It's this object that's out there. The AI did this; the AI did that. But there's another way [to think about it], which is to say, no, it's a collaboration of humans. Unverified source (2026)

Intelligence without rules and rails is a dangerous blind spot. [...] Governance isn't a feature. It's the whole ball game. Because without it, your whole company can come down. Unverified source (2026)

There's not one big magic red button that blows up the data centre, which I think some people sort of assume exists. Verified source (2026)

It needs only an optimization objective that treats shutdown as one more obstacle between the current state and the goal. Unverified source (2026)

AI R&D is fully automated in the middle of a year and this kicks off a rapid intelligence explosion that leads to very broadly superhuman AI. Unverified source (2026)

Until some company or scientist says ‘Here’s the proof! We can definitely have a safety mechanism that can scale to any level of intelligence,’ I don’t think we should be developing those general superintelligences. We can get most of the benefits w... more Unverified source (2024)

For the last-invention story to hold, people would have to become unnecessary even as partners or supervisors to AIs. [...] We would need a world where practical know-how is fully transferable through digital channels and where responsibility can be ... more Unverified source (2026)