YouCongress Polls

For middle powers, the logic of banding together is undeniably compelling at a time of escalating great power coercion. [...] It would be a distributed or collaborative sovereignty in which AI infrastructure, capabilities, and governance decisionmaki... more Unverified source (2026)

For South Korea and Singapore, our advantage does not necessarily lie in building the largest or the latest frontier large language models (LLMs), but in the deployment and adoption of AI extensively, responsibly, effectively and across the entire so... more Unverified source (2026)

There's suddenly a new possibility, a new opportunity, to use these tools, learn them, and start your own mini business. [...] Even if there is temporary job displacement to deal with, that sort of glorious future is what we should look forward to. 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)

In recent years, artificial intelligence systems have increasingly taken control of the production of texts, music and videos. This puts much of the human creative industry at risk of being dismantled and replaced with the label 'Powered by AI,' turn... more Unverified source (2026)

We did our most in-depth model welfare assessment yet for Claude Mythos Preview. We're still super uncertain about all of this, but as models become more capable and sophisticated we think it's an increasingly important topic for both moral and pragm... more Unverified source (2026)

Large language models can be thought of as advanced role-players. They are really good at adopting roles based on what they've learned from their training data. That can include playing the role of a conscious robot. [...] If you have an emotional co... more Unverified source (2026)

Computational functionalism dominates current debates on AI consciousness. This is the hypothesis that subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology, regardless of the underlying physical substrate. We argue this view fundament... more Unverified source (2026)

I now see a path to actually avoid loss of control, at least unintended loss of control. With the work that I've been doing, I'm really convinced that there is a path. And it is not something that's going to take a decade; it is something that is ver... more Unverified source (2026)

The fact that things look aligned most of the time when they're functioning in their chatbot, or very limited 'Assistant' roles, is very little evidence that they will be adequately aligned when they work much more independently and have much greater... more Unverified source (2026)

Without collective action, artificial intelligence will deepen historical inequalities. [...] The data generated by our citizens, companies, and public bodies is being appropriated by a few conglomerates, with no equivalent compensation in terms of v... more Unverified source (2026)

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

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 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)

What is happening in Ukraine, in Gaza and the Palestinian territories, in Lebanon and in Iran illustrates the inhuman evolution of the relationship between war and new technologies in a spiral of annihilation. [...] so that it does not absolve humans... more Unverified source (2026)

At first, lethal autonomous weapons systems that cannot guarantee use in conformity with international humanitarian law — that is, systems that are intrinsically indiscriminate; systems whose effects cannot be limited, anticipated and controlled; sys... more AI Verified source (2025)

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 AI Verified source (2019)

I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. [...] My favourite version of an international AGI project is loosely modelled on Intelsat, an international project that developed the first global satellite communicat... more Unverified source (2026)

[...] calls for a CERN-like open-source collaboration among the United States and allied countries to establish an international "supercomputing research facility". AI Verified source (2023)

Through the different interactions we had with the scientific community, we thought the best way forward is to have networking of what exists in Europe and strengthening of what exists, instead of creating new infrastructures. AI Verified source (2025)

Europe enters the AI era over-regulated and under-industrialized, imports the vast majority of its advanced semiconductors, pays materially higher industrial electricity prices than the U.S., and still relies on American cloud providers for the bulk ... more Unverified source (2026)

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

I think this is crazy... like selling nuclear weapons to North Korea and bragging, oh yeah, Boeing made the case. Unverified source (2026)

Conceding an entire market the size of China probably does not make a lot of strategic sense, so I think that has already largely backfired. Maybe it made sense at the time, but I think the policy really needs to be dynamic and needs to stay with the... more Unverified source (2026)

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)

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'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 AI Verified source (2023)

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)

The GUARD Act is a critical step to draw lines in the sand with Big Tech and ensure that minors are protected from chatbots that mimic romantic and social companionship. Unverified source (2026)

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

Many people working in AI feel like they're living within a lie. Privately, they know that the current reckless pursuit of superintelligent AI poses an extinction threat to our species, but publicly they keep quiet so as to not rock the boat and risk... more 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)

Without data portability, interoperability, and shared access, the AI ecosystem will calcify around a small group of entrenched incumbents who control the essential asset. Unverified source (2026)

The big winners here are not going to be tech companies. The winners are going to be the broader industry that uses this commodity [...] that, by the way, is abundant. Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. Unverified source (2026)