YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

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. ...

This race started with AI megadonors pledging $10 million to stop me because they were afraid after I passed the strongest AI safety law in the country. Since then, everyone who supports AI regulation and safety — from teachers to tech workers, from ...

The FRONTIER Act is a targeted bill with clear, uniform transparency, and safety standards, instead of a fifty-state patchwork. I'm glad to support this bipartisan effort so that Congress acts before this technology outruns us.

Young people are increasingly worried about the implication of AI on their job opportunities. These instances emphasize the urgency of broader discussion on how to build a social consensus around those challenges at a speed commensurate with the spee...

AI may instead exacerbate inequality, eliminating some lower- and middle-income jobs while boosting the income and wealth of higher-income individuals. Since we don't know which of these futures will come about, it is useful to use potential scenario...

There will be no permanent underclass, because everyone is dead.

It’s a bold first step in regulatory technology policies that will be a work in progress as we continue to craft legislation to help spur research and innovation in this rapidly growing AI industry.

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

AI is progressing at a rate that our society might not be ready for. Frontier labs are very close to AI that can exceed even the best people on almost every metric of intelligence. This will lead to unprecedented social and safety risks. To ensure a ...

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.

Political parties, candidates and campaign representatives are required to ensure that any synthetically generated or AI-altered content used for campaigning is clearly labelled as “AI-Generated”, “Digitally Enhanced” or “Synthetic Content”, along wi...

We should ask ourselves an important question: does the problem require government regulation?

Provide reliable, system-level mechanisms to pause or stop agents safely and immediately.

If you’re relying on a ‘kill switch’ to stop an AI agent, you’ve already made a fundamental mistake. A properly governed agent is simply never handed the task, so there is nothing to kill.

The Administration wants American workers to participate in and reap the rewards of AI-driven growth, encouraging Congress to further workforce development and skills training programs, expanding opportunities across sectors and creating new jobs in ...

AI will replace some jobs but it will also create many more jobs. Now, where it finally lands we can’t say. Technology can disrupt, it can also enable, can boost productivity, it can create new jobs, it can enable you to do the same things better as ...

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.

Congress must establish a comprehensive federal AI safety framework with mandatory safety testing, independent audits, incident reporting requirements, and regulators empowered to remove AI systems when they pose risks.

Timelines for incident reports are often set with well-intentioned urgency, but if they implicitly assume that root-cause analysis or full impact assessment has already been conducted, they will either produce premature and unreliable reports or plac...

I appreciate the intent behind the amendments and the shadow Minister’s position of understanding but not supporting them, which I share.

We don’t need perfect understanding. But we do need to ensure that understandability keeps pace with capability, and to give high priority to building insight into how these systems work, how they fail, and how they can be aligned with human needs an...

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;

Private capability, however well intentioned, is not the same as democratic legitimacy. The majority of the world’s nations, representing the majority of the world’s people, are not part of the equation.

Here we have, for the first time, a technology where the makers of the technology are explicitly saying that their goal is to replace all human labor. The fact that they’ve put it out there means government needs to take it seriously.

Rather than doing something immediately, it would be better first to have academic research and examination, and then apply the scholarly findings to reality. It is an issue that, in the later legislative process, must win public consensus and fully ...

The better use of any surplus generated by AI adoption is to fund accessible and effective upskilling that amplifies Singaporeans’ value.

By banning AI-generated or manipulated sexual deepfakes and AI-generated child sexual abuse material, we are sending a clear message that technological progress must always go hand in hand with the protection of our fundamental values.

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...

[...] and that is why, just last week, I introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act. This legislation would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest AI companies in America. It would allow the American people, through their g...

The problem is not the idea that the public should share in AI’s upside. The problem is trying to seize half of today’s model labs while missing the rest of the value chain.