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Expert opinions on AGI
Sourced quotes, claims, policy proposals and stances on AGI from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
393 sourced quotes · 5 policy proposals and claims
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For (7)Cygnux LabsIndependent AI safety research lab and think tank focused on making autonomous AI systems verifiable, accountable, and safer to trust.votes For and says:
Physicists faced a version of this problem in the 1950s. No single lab could afford the machine they needed, so they pooled resources and built one together, with shared data and shared credit. This piece sketches what the same move could look like f...
more Unverifiable source (Oct 6, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (11)Bernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes Against and says:It is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced. That’s why I am introducing legislation to immediately pause the development of increasingly powerful AI and ban the creation of systems that hu...
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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For (64)Ben GoertzelSingularityNET founder; AGI researchervotes For and says:For a long time many of us thought of RSI as the way AGI turns into superintelligence. [...] I was advocating what I called a semi-hard takeoff: a period where the self-improvement was real but not that fast, followed by a point -- once the AGI fully...
more AI Verified source (Oct 5, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (10)votes Against and says:I do not think this will happen. I don’t think that automating AI R&D will rapidly produce domain-general superintelligence. I don’t think that a data centre of geniuses, largely separated from the rest of the economy, will figure out how to cure Alz...
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For (138)Yoshua BengioAI Pioneer, Turing Award winnervotes For and says:
This suggests pacing the advances: not training or deploying AIs without a strong safety case that convinces independent experts.
AI Verified source (Sep 11, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Danny SawyerSenior Research Scientist for frontier AI at Google.abstains and says:I believe that attempting to deliberately pace AI development will be extremely difficult, and could do more harm than good if done without proper care. However, I am signing this statement because, if an attempt at pacing does occur, it would be bet...
more Unverifiable source (Jul 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (30)Donald J. TrumpU.S. President (2025–present)votes Against and says:We will only encourage super intelligence. We’re going to encourage it, not rein it in.
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AGI will create abundance
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For (40)Greg BrockmanOpenAI cofounder; former presidentvotes For and says:Well, I do have a fundamental belief that AI is surprising. [...] I think that the way that things will change and how what we do with our time evolves and we clearly will be in a world of abundance and how do we ensure that that abundance is broadly...
more AI Verified source (Sep 14, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (4)Betsey StevensonLabor economist and professor of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan; former member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.abstains and says:The promise of artificial general intelligence is that it will provide unprecedented productivity gains that could allow all of humanity to achieve a standard of living greater than that experienced by those in the wealthiest nations.
Unverifiable source (Sep 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (11)Daron AcemogluNobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progressvotes Against and says:AGI is generally understood as an AI system that can match or exceed human capabilities on most economically valuable tasks. In such a world, the automation of work would not be limited to specific industries or routine jobs. Instead, machines would ...
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Build artificial general intelligence
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For (41)Koray KavukcuogluSenior Vice President and Chief AI Architect at Google DeepMind.votes For and says:Gemini, of course, is very much focused on building AGI and delivering the goals. [...] To build AGI, something that you can put in front of people that they can work with. [...] Success in building AGI still depends on innovation and exploration and...
more AI Verified source (Sep 3, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (22)Daron AcemogluNobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progressvotes Against and says:Many leading companies are engaged in a single-minded pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI). [...] Rather than racing to replace people, we should build AI tools that amplify human expertise and expand opportunity.
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