YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

Safety progress takes time. If you don’t have enough time, at each stage of AI development, to ensure the AIs that you build in the next stage won’t destroy humanity, then you’ll fail, and humanity will be destroyed.

So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...

Those extreme risks are still science fiction. So these speeches are largely diversions, very deliberately crafted.

Our belief is that AI will largely augment human capability and not replace it. Creativity, judgement, communication and collaboration become much more important, because they leverage the benefits of human capability rather than compete with technol...

The idea that AI will erase 20% of jobs is "ridiculously stupid," LeCun says, adding some roles will disappear but new ones will emerge, as in past tech shifts.

I don't understand the premise that a responsible leader of any organization wouldn't plan for the alternative: That maybe there is this chance that we do go through a one to three to five year period where we're just going to need fewer people.

By tying coverage to substantial AI research and development investments and requiring transparency and independent assessments from those developers, the bill avoids one-size-fits-all mandates and allows smaller innovators to spend their time buildi...

This bill contains a critically flawed mandatory third-party audit requirement that creates an impossible compliance obligation on an unrealistic timeline.

In the span of four years, we have gone from people having their first experience of an AI that could understand language, to AI that is performing superhuman feats of software engineering, making frontier math breakthroughs, and accelerating scienti...

Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.

ABUNDANCE IS COMING. THE QUESTION IS WHO IT'S COMING FOR.

AI could make goods and services cheaper than ever, raising hopes for a new age of abundance where scarcity plays a smaller role in human life.

Using practical theories tested in the real world across different circumstances—as opposed to opinions or analyses based on data that does not yet exist—suggests there may be important twists ahead that should lead us to question whether a “world of...

Frontier AI capabilities are advancing rapidly, and the pace of progress is itself accelerating. We see this directly in our evaluation work. CyberGym and ExploitGym show that frontier AI agents are now capable of discovering and exploiting real-wor...

The question that the noble Lord posed was: do we therefore go for a moratorium? That would be highly desirable, but I do not think that it will be possible in the short term.

What is needed is not to slow innovation but to harness it — to channel AI’s momentum toward outcomes that reinforce trust, safety and societal well-being.

I believe Sovereign AI is going to be one of the most important things this government does to build a better future for our country.

The EU’s ambition to triple data centre capacity is the right one. But the way to achieve that goal is by attracting investment, not shutting it out.

A compute permit system would face its own challenges: defining which training runs qualify as high-stakes, preventing developers from fragmenting workloads to stay below thresholds, and ensuring that monitoring infrastructure does not become a tool ...

According to the proposed rule, a covered US person will be required to provide quarterly reports to BIS if the US person “engages in, or plans, within six months, to engage in ‘applicable activities.’” “Applicable activities” include: “Conducting a...

A regulatory trigger calibrated to compute volume does not measure what it purports to measure, and it was designed around a snapshot of model architecture that the industry has already moved beyond.

Establishing a common definition of an “AI incident” could allow companies to report system failures anonymously through neutral platforms such as international research consortia. The goal would be not to share technology, but to understand failure ...

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...

AI safety is a challenge that no single nation can meet on its own. Through this memorandum of understanding, the Republic of Korea and Canada will jointly advance evaluation methodologies and measurement science for frontier AI, laying the groundwor...

Our view is that AI is a general-purpose technology with a wide range of applications, and also that regulators understand well the sectors they are regulating. They understand the risks that are present and understand, as many noble Lords have raise...

If leadership cannot clearly trace the decision back to defined objectives and human intent, the system should not be operating. Governance begins where explainability fails.

We have a very natural instinct to say: we want as much interpretability as possible. One of the sci-fi worry cases is that agents start speaking in languages to each other that we don't understand. [...] I bet there are ways to define boundaries tha...

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

Humanity is not sufficiently prepared for the impacts of advanced AI in psychological, social, environmental, labour market, and military domains. With an inflection point in recursive AI self-improvement forecasted to be just around the corner, lead...

The question that the noble Lord posed was: do we therefore go for a moratorium? That would be highly desirable, but I do not think that it will be possible in the short term.

The conclusion is sobering: a global stop to the development of superintelligent AI seems impossible.

Boards can no longer simply ask if a human sits in the loop and check that box. They must assess whether that person can act with cognitive sovereignty and out-think the system when it matters, and whether anyone is investing so she can.

Hence, under the overarching ambit of the National AI Council and together with tripartite partners, we are studying the use of AI tools by businesses and its impact on employment, before deciding the most appropriate approach for Singapore.

The requirement of human review is one of the most burdensome compliance elements for employers, particularly in comparison to states that allow alternative processes rather than human review.

Human-in-the-loop oversight is critical to the adoption of agentic AI tools in finance. AI prepares the work. Humans retain decision authority.

I think we have to actually get rid of that narrative, because it's not inspiring to people to be a human in the loop.

Governments should adopt clear prohibitions or moratoria on AI systems and uses that pose unacceptable risks to human rights.

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. ...