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YouCongress Polls
Expert and Citizen Preferences on AI Governance
Sourced quotes and a participation layer keep expert and citizen preferences in plain view.
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For (37)Alexandria Ocasio-CortezU.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district; lead sponsor of the DEFIANCE Actvotes For and says:Congress has a moral obligation to stand with the American people and stop the expansion of these data centers until we have a framework to adequately address the existential harm AI poses to our society. Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (18)Lord Patel of BradfordNarendra Babubhai Patel KT; Member of the UK House of Lords; crossbench peervotes Against and says:I come from the position of saying that moratoriums will not work. But we can work in co-operation with other nations that have already started regulating, such as South Korea and Australia, as well as work with our AI Security Institute in the Unite... more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
32 opinions
For (21)Jack ClarkAnthropic cofounder and policy researchervotes For and says:My prediction is by the end of 2028, it's more likely than not that we have an AI system where you would be able to say to it: 'Make a better version of yourself.' And it just goes off and does that completely autonomously. [...] What I'm looking at ... more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Roman V. YampolskiyAI safety researcher, Louisville professorabstains and says: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 AI Verified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (10)Carl Benedikt FreyAssociate Professor of AI & Work at the Oxford Internet Institute; Director of the Future of Work Program at the Oxford Martin School; author of The Technology Trap and How Progress Endsvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
AGI will create abundance
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For (21)Bill GatesPhilanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.votes For and says:There is no upper limit on how intelligent AIs will get or on how good robots will get, and I believe the advances will not plateau before exceeding human levels. [...] AI capabilities will allow us to make far more goods and services with less labor... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (11)Yann LeCunComputer scientist, AI researchervotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (18)Tim Berners-LeeInventor of the World Wide Webvotes For and says:I would like to see a CERN for AI [...] where all the top scientists come together and see whether they can make a super intelligence. And, if they can, they contain it into a system where it can't just go out and persuade people to let it run the wo... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Akash WasilLawfare contributing writerabstains and says:To mitigate the “race to God-like AI,” Ian Hogarth—chair of the U.K. AI Safety Institute—proposed an “Island model,” in which a joint international lab performs research on superintelligence in a highly secure facility. An essential part of this pro... more AI Verified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (7)Tom DavidsonAI governance researchervotes Against and says:So the the prototypical situation I'm imagining here is you know there's a kind of one ai project, which is you know somewhat ahead of the others, and maybe it it goes through intelligence explosion, whereas which by which I mean kind of AI can autom... more AI Verified source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Build artificial general intelligence
55 opinions
For (30)Jensen HuangNvidia cofounder and CEOvotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Mustafa SuleymanMicrosoft AI CEO; authorabstains and says:This is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that will mean collectively saying no to certain forms of progress... more AI Verified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (24)Karen HaoTechnology journalist and authorvotes Against and says:This scale is unnecessary. You do not need this scale of AI and compute to realize the benefits. Indeed, if we really want AI to be broadly beneficial, we urgently need to shift away from this approach. [...] The kinds of AI systems that dominate our... more Unverified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.