YouCongress Polls

That branch of AI is lethal. We've got to do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans. Unverified source (2026)

The idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it, others will do so nearly as fast. [...] Even if all Western companies stopped their work on AI, authoritarian countries wo... more Unverified source (2026)

AI is likely to close the technology divide, because it is so easy to use and so abundant and so accessible. [...] I'm optimistic about the potential of AI to lift the countries that are emerging. [...] We need to make sure that the average pensioner... more Unverified source (2026)

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)

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)

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 Unverified source (2023)

Once AI reaches human-level capabilities, we will be able to use it to improve itself in a self-referential way. I personally believe that if we can reach AGI, we will reach ASI shortly, maybe a few years after that. Unverified source

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 Unverified source (2024)

My own opinion is that of course this is possible in principle. I would never have started working on Artificial Intelligence if I did not believe that. [...] Even if it is possible I personally think we are far, far further away from understanding ... more Unverified source

We will refer to such a lab as the Global Public Benefit AI Lab (or "Lab"). The Lab will be an open, public-private, democratically-governed consortium, aimed at achieving and sustaining a solid global leadership or co-leadership in human-controllab... more Unverified source

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 Unverified source (2024)

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 Unverified source

The fact is that we're ending mass wage labor. This is what's going on with all the companies I've been working with. Mass labor is disappearing forever. Even if you retrained the entire workforce of Europe so that they would be qualified for these ... more Unverified source (2005)

AI is thus a general-purpose technology that can automate work in virtually every occupation. It stands in contrast to other technologies such as computerisation and industrial robotics, which only allow a limited set of tasks to be automated by impl... more Unverified source (2023)