YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

AI has the potential to be the biggest single change to hiring since the internet. Whether this change is positive or negative depends on how we - the UK hiring community - harness and apply it. It should be about hiring outputs, leaving humans to fo...

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

The reason we chose fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance as the areas where we simply can't say yes is because the technology is so new that we do not believe the laws may be perfectly designed to account for how the technology cou...

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 ...

AI has huge potential to create more good jobs. We’re seeing this already through the 15,000 jobs being created in our AI Growth Zones, and through the success of brilliant British companies like Sage, Wayve and Graphcore.

AI may become radically more powerful over the next 10 years. This could drive an unprecedented transformation of our economy, larger than the Industrial Revolution, but unfolding over a vastly shorter time frame. It could bring risks, including larg...

Overall, this has created a modest net drag on US labor markets.

Free speech is not the freedom to violate consent.

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...

The common-sense response to this risk is to prevent the development of superintelligence outright, rather than to expect industry to stop gambling with humanity's future.

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...

We have a short window of opportunity to shape the AI revolution so that it enhances and supports jobs, rather than destroying and undermining them, and it is right that government are bringing employers and unions together to think through these iss...

the evidence on how AI is affecting the labor market today is inconclusive, and claims about harmful impacts on particular groups of workers are premature.

The growth of AI and automation does not automatically translate to widespread job displacement.

The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act would require AI-enabled autonomous systems to be deployed in a way that ensures human operators are able to control, monitor, detect unintended behavior, and manually disengage or deactivate any de...

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 UN could endorse and administer a common, machine-readable schema for AI incident reporting that Member States can adopt by reference.

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...

Accessing personal information in this manner without consent or a warrant constitutes alarming overreach by the federal government.

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. ...

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If we create a new right to control training, that will not give creative workers control over AI training... It will give our bosses control over AI training, because they will amend our standard contracts to demand that we sign away our training ri...

Once the assessment protocol is shown to be effective and robust, formalisation could quickly follow, meaning that Frontier Models would be required to pass it to be deployed in the US market.

However, it is important to differentiate regulating applications (which we need) vs. regulating the technology (which is ill-advised).

Research indicates that approximately one third of the population are hyper-absorbers of dietary cholesterol. These individuals experience a significantly greater increase in LDL cholesterol levels in response to dietary cholesterol intake compared t...

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

Dietary cholesterol is found in animal foods, including meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, and dairy products. [...] Strong evidence shows that eating patterns that include less dietary cholesterol are associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular diseas...

There are enough issues with this study that it’s hard to make strong conclusions about whether eggs are healthy or not.

Most healthy people can eat up to seven eggs a week without affecting their heart health.

There is now abundant evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was an animal-to-human spillover event that occurred in the western section of the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market that housed several live animals that were susceptible to the virus. Indeed, the early c...

All he is saying in this Science article is that we need better, more comprehensive patient case and dated viral sequence data – at the time of first appearance of these viruses – to make this viral phylogenetic/evolutionary history approach more acc...

The data from the paper support the notion that Huanan market may have been just an amplifier of COVID-19 transmission, rather than the place where COVID-19 originated.

AI companies must be held legally responsible for the output that is created by their systems and pushed to users.

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...