YouCongress Polls

We would agree – if we have to do that to save society. Society will have more production. We're going to cure a lot of cancers. You're not going to slow it down. How do you have plans in place to make it work better if it does something terrible? Unverified source (2026)

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

[The] Digital Dividend [...] is a small universal cash benefit financed by a tax on the digital sector, and serves as a scalable pathway toward higher unconditional income support, should economy-wide job scarcity materialize. The Digital Dividend st... more Unverified source (2026)

Capitalism has also depended on somewhat of a power balance between labor and capital, but if it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. [...] If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now, so I don't... more Unverified source (2026)

I think quality homes in good locations will be extremely valuable. Those could be taxed more. You could call that a wealth tax, but arguably it is closer to a "housing services tax". [...] You could put higher consumption taxes on items the wealthy ... more Unverified source (2026)

Alignment is solved for models in the current paradigm. [...] The strongest reasons to think alignment hasn't been fully solved concern future models heavily optimized under outcome-based reinforcement learning, and technical research should anticipa... more Unverified source (2026)

I have heard zero people advocating "make AI do our ASI alignment homework" show they understand the elementary computer science of why that's hard: you can't verify inside a loss function whether a proposed ASI alignment scheme is any good. Unverified source (2026)

This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches. [...] Tech companies love Section 230, which basically says they're not responsible. So if this large language model coaches this child into suicide... more Unverified source (2026)

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves. Unverified source (2026)

There are some digital products (say CSAM and AI letting terrorists make bioweapons) that I oppose regardless of whether they are open-source or not, but I'm overall supportive of open source, and you can easily verify that my MIT research group defa... more Unverified source (2026)

In a time dominated by open-weight biological AI models developed across the globe, limiting access to sensitive pathogen data to legitimate researchers might be one of the most promising avenues for risk reduction. Unverified source (2026)

Since computational infrastructure is largely open-access, decentralized, and global, regulatory chokepoints are limited. Export controls may delay access to high-performance computing, but they are unlikely to prevent the use of open-source models f... more Verified source (2025)

We might have AI that is smarter than any human by end of this year, and no later than next year. And probably 2030 or 2031 -- 5 years from now -- AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively. [...] I said years ago that humans are just the '... more Unverified source (2026)

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)

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 am particularly concerned that the DoD is trying to strong-arm American companies into providing the Department with the tools to spy on American citizens and deploy fully autonomous weapons without adequate safeguards. The barring of Anthropic app... more Unverified source (2026)

To the second part of your question, I am strongly in favor of discussions internationally about things like norms. I think with this point, it would be counterproductive to have outright bans on things that people don't even fully understand what th... more Unverified source (2019)

As we're building potentially a new kind of mind, let's notice the following facts: Humans are pretty bad at understanding minds that are different from us, we're bad at caring about them — and we're especially bad at doing that when there's a lot of... more Unverified source (2026)

We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to some influential, mainstream theories of consciousness but are not conscious according to other influential, mainstream theories of consciousness. We will not be in a position to know whi... more Unverified source (2026)

Computational functionalism claims that executing certain computations is sufficient for consciousness, regardless of the physical mechanisms implementing those computations. This view neglects a compelling alternative: that subcomputational biologic... more Unverified source (2026)

I'm not a doom and gloomer [about AI's economic impact]. I don't think you're ever going to take the humans out of the picture and AI is going to do everything and we're going to be left working the drive-through window at McDonald's. At the end of t... more Unverified source (2026)

People have the wrong intuition when they say that if AI can do my job for ten dollars an hour, then my wage falls to ten dollars and my life is terrible. A world where AI can do research or teaching at that cost is a world where AI is extremely capa... more Unverified source (2026)

Job loss is going to happen. [...] I wouldn't be surprised if we are at the beginning of decades of job displacement. Unverified source (2026)

If it can happen once that a judge cannot use their email or does not have payment options, then it can happen again. We are so dependent on Chinese and US technology for that infrastructure. It's a dependency, and it can be weaponized against us. Unverified source (2026)

trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty. Unverified source (2025)

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)

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)

I think it is very important that the U.S. AI sector remains ahead of the Chinese AI sector, but if that's at the expense of AI overrunning the entire planet, then that hasn't benefitted us. Unverified source (2026)

Computer scientists often aren't good judges of the social and political implications of technology. They are so focused on the AI's mechanisms and are overwhelmed by its success, but they are not very good at placing it into a social and historical ... 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)

I think there are ways in which [the pursuit of artificial general intelligence] is a misguided agenda. [...] It would have huge social consequences that are quite adverse. Unverified source (2026)

We must ensure our allies align their export controls with American standards — through diplomacy if possible, but unilaterally if necessary. Unverified source (2026)

coerced or courted some countries to adopt export restrictions against China. [...] Such bullying acts seriously violate market principles and the international trade order Unverified source (2023)

to demand meaningful human control, which ensures responsibility and accountability, in any use of force. [...] It is a world that rejects the automation of killing. Unverified source (2020)

This strategy will accelerate our advantage, and we must implement it with the Warrior Ethos. Consistent with the refocusing of the Department onto a wartime footing, I expect the following approaches to become internalized as essential elements of o... more Unverified source (2026)