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After witnessing the harmful impact of the tech industry's move-fast-break-things mantra during the rise of social media platforms, the public wants safeguards now. What's most disturbing is that the framework recommends both banning state laws on AI... more Unverified source (2026)

This was in response to a growing patchwork of 50 different state regulatory regimes that threaten to stifle innovation and jeopardize America's lead in the AI race. [...] In December, President Trump signed an Executive Order tasking us with the dev... more Unverified source (2026)

More and more teens are interacting with chatbots, depriving them of opportunities to learn critical interpersonal skills. Science shows that failure to develop these skills leads to lifetime problems with mental health, chronic medical issues and ev... more Unverified source (2026)

Although age restrictions on chatbots designed for erotic or intimate interactions likely meet the “obscene for children” standard from Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, we oppose wide-ranging age restrictions, as they could hinder both children and a... more Unverified source (2025)

I would argue that those 50,000 job losses are not driven by AI, but are just driven by the general uncertainty in the market. It's too early to link those to AI. [...] 2026 is the year of the great adaptation. [...] I see AI as a big opportunity for... more Unverified source (2026)

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. [...] All the important questions about AI's effects on the labor market are still unanswered.... more Unverified source (2026)

As AI takes over their current work, most workers will probably get poorer or have to take additional jobs to maintain their current pay. [...] AI will make most of us poorer and a few fabulously wealthy — unless its productivity gains are allocated ... more Unverified source (2026)

The future of AI and companies is human in the lead. [...] I think the human in the loop has been a huge disservice because companies are led by humans. You can't trust AI unless you understand AI — if you don't have the leaders understanding it, the... more Unverified source (2026)

You have to do the hard work of thinking about the outcomes that you're trying to steer away from, as opposed to saying just stop until you're perfect. An iterative deployment process that gets AI tools into everyone's hands and then responds to thei... more Unverified source (2024)

The investment in making AIs more capable and smarter is roughly in a ratio of a thousand to one compared to the investment in research in safety. Unverified source (2026)

A lot of the people who are marginalized end up having more unfair representations. [...] Regulation is tending to lag AI development. 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're seeing AIs whose behavior, when they are tested, [...] is different from when they are being used. [This] significantly hampers our ability to correctly estimate risks. [...] The gap between the pace of technological advancement and our ability... more Unverified source (2026)

Those compliance costs are merely the beginning. The bill, if passed, would feed California regulators truckloads of company information that they will use to design a compliance industrial complex. Unverified source (2025)

If AI leads to a transformation, where the labor share goes down by a lot more and the capital share goes up by a lot more, you can't run the kinds of programs you're running, in terms of entitlements, without having a higher capital income tax. It's... more Unverified source (2026)

As labor income taxation becomes less viable, the primary lesson is that consumption taxation must carry more fiscal weight. This shift aligns naturally with pro-innovation policies, as consumption taxes avoid penalizing the capital investments essen... more Unverified source (2026)

For all the talk about AI alignment, I worry we're putting the cart before the horse. You can't steer something you can't control. People often talk about containment and alignment in the same breath, but they're not interchangeable or a package deal... more Unverified source (2026)

Treating speculative “superintelligence” as the policy target and proposing to freeze development until there’s public buy‑in and scientific consensus distracts from the actual, present‑day harms of AI systems. These systems are already amplifying di... more Unverified source (2025)

The key risk is not only "runaway" AI, but the quiet normalization of systems that undermine human dignity, due process, and equal protection because no one is clearly accountable when things go wrong. [...] The central question will be whether gover... more Unverified source (2026)

It causes a lot of cases to get solved. It’s another tool we’re now not going to have. That facial recognition can potentially solve homicides, [...] Unverified source (2026)

Without AI safeguards, we may soon face epistemic chaos, engineered pandemics, and systematic human rights violation. History teaches us that when confronted with irreversible, borderless threats, cooperation is the only rational way to pursue nation... more Unverified source (2025)

With nuclear weapons, [...] they can't [...] in secret, but with developing new types of AI, it's much easier [...] So it's not enough to have an agreement. Unverified source (2018)

I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough... more Unverified source (2015)

When 90% of the messaging is all around the end of the world and the pessimism...we're scaring people from making the investments in AI. It's not helpful. It's not helpful to people. It's not helpful to the industry. It's not helpful to society. It's... more Unverified source (2026)

The European Commission strongly promotes secure digital communication infrastructures made in Europe, aiming to make the most of telco-edge-cloud convergence, with and for AI. The EU-funded project EURO-3C federates the efforts of a very large numbe... more Unverified source (2026)

trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty. Unverified source (2025)

Predictive policing is a dangerous thing that has no place in a democratic society. [...] bias and stereotypes at scale. Black people, migrant people, poor people, people from geographic areas which have been historically over policed are more likely... more Unverified source (2026)

That’s not to say that police departments shouldn’t use software to analyze their data. [...] Further development of the technology is inevitable, so local governments and police departments should develop appropriate standards and practices. [...] P... more Unverified source (2017)

For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty. [...] Each of the CEOs of the main AI companies, I believe, wants to disarm, but they cannot d... more Unverified source (2026)

If you have to report to 50 different state regulators at 50 different times with 50 different definitions, it's extremely onerous. And it's going to slow down innovation, and it's going to hinder our progress in the AI race. Unverified source (2025)