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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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AGI will create abundance
38 opinions
For (22)Mark ZuckerbergMeta CEO; Facebook co-foundervotes For and says:In the AI era, it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses. [...] This is important for ensuring that people broadly share in the prosperity created by superintelligence. AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (16)Yanis VaroufakisFormer finance minister of Greece, is Professor of Economics at the University of Athensvotes Against and says:Technologies that could free us from drudgery, poverty and environmental collapse instead make life worse for most people in most countries. AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (39)Colin DeaconIndependent Senator for Nova Scotia, Canada; former technology entrepreneur; advocate for responsible AI, data and innovation policyvotes For and says:There is AI that is not responding to instructions, to commands, and there are documented cases of that. [...] If we don't consider ways to manage what we know is occurring already, and there is use of autonomous weapons already, if we are not lookin... more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (19)Baroness Lloyd of EffraLiz Lloyd; UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government (DSIT)votes Against and says:My own view, after talking with colleagues in the AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, is that a moratorium would be unenforceable. Instead, I support the proposal made this week by the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to set up a commis... more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Build artificial general intelligence
56 opinions
For (31)Alexandr WangChief AI Officer at Meta; founder and former CEO of Scale AIvotes For and says:Our vision is personal superintelligence. AI that knows you, your goals, your interests, and helps you with whatever you're focused on doing. It serves you, whoever you are, wherever you are. AI Verified 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 AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
36 opinions
For (24)Richard SocherAI researcher; founder and CEO of Recursive Superintelligence; founder of You.com; former Chief Scientist at Salesforcevotes For and says:Our main focus is to build truly recursive, self-improving superintelligence at scale, which means that the entire process of ideation, implementation, and validation of research ideas would be automatic. 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 (11)Gary MarcusProfessor of Psychology and Neural Sciencevotes Against and says:Plot the same improvements on a linear y-axis and you get steady incremental gains, impressive but not the hockey stick that triggered the panic. [...] We don't have evidence that Mythos is actually an important step towards broad superintelligence. AI Verified 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 AI Verified 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.