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Expert opinions on AI
Quotes, votes and policy statements on AI from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
678 sourced quotes · 22 policy proposals and claims
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AI will create more jobs than it destroys
55 opinions
For (34)Added 3d agoJeff BezosAmazon founder; Blue Origin ownervotes For and says:I know there’s a lot of concern that many people have, including many smart people, that AI is going to make humans redundant and so on. I totally disagree with this point of view. And I think, in fact, AI is going to create a labor shortage.
AI Verified source (Jun 17, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Added 3mo agoJed KolkoSenior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; labor economistabstains and says:the evidence on how AI is affecting the labor market today is inconclusive, and claims about harmful impacts on particular groups of workers are premature.
AI Verified source (Mar 10, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (19)Added 1d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:The financing for new models is coming from investors, and those investors are making a bet that the AI they're funding will be so good that employers can fire half their workers and replace them with AI, with the proceeds split between AI companies'...
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For (18)Added 1d agoAidan GomezCo-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" Transformer papervotes For and says:
This sentiment of renting AI from someone rather than owning it is a national security risk [...] You need to fully control it.
AI Verified source (Jun 23, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 1mo agoJeremy JurgensManaging Director of the World Economic Forum; head of its Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution / frontier technologiesvotes Against and says:Governments are on track to spend more than $1 trillion by 2030 chasing a sovereign stack, the full range of hardware and capabilities necessary to deploy and operate AI infrastructure. [...] In an interdependent system, the question shifts from how ...
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AI might become conscious
38 opinions
For (23)Added 8d agoGeoffrey HintonGodfather of Deep Learningvotes For and says:Suppose I say to a chatbot, I saw the Grand Canyon flying to Chicago. And the chatbot says, that can't be right. The Grand Canyon is much too big to fly to Chicago. And I say, no, no, no, it was me flying to Chicago. While I was flying to Chicago, I ...
more AI Verified source (Jun 3, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (5)Added 2mo agoNed BlockSilver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology, and Neural Science at New York University; leading philosopher of mind and consciousnessabstains and says: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 AI Verified source (Oct 7, 2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (11)Added 2d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:A conscious being isn’t a word-guessing app that knows more words and has more computing power to guess with.
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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For (24)Added 15d agoScott AlexanderAuthor and psychiatristvotes For and says:AI has gone from "dumber than a child" to "expert level" in a few years in many domains. The gap between "expert level" and "above top geniuses" is smaller, so we expect it to take less time. This has been a pattern in fields like chess and Go, where...
more AI Verified source (Jun 11, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (7)Added 2d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:Throwing more words and GPUs into the word-guessing program won't make it sentient. [...] one of our mares gives birth to a locomotive.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
84 opinions
For (53)Added 4d agoBernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes For and says:And by the way, there's the existential threat that as AI becomes smarter than humans, it can [...] become independent and lead to catastrophic impacts.
AI Verified source (Jun 18, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 8mo agoTyler CowenProfessor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Overabstains and says:So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...
more AI Verified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (31)Added 2d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:These fears (or hopes) of a nascent superintelligence that will spontaneously arise if we just give enough computing power and training data to large language models are absurd on their face.
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For (55)Added 8d agoSam AltmanCEO at OpenAIvotes For and says:
We need an international forum for discussion that establishes globally accepted standards for testing, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and serves as a venue for cooperation among nations.
AI Verified source (Jun 17, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Added 6mo agoMiles BrundageAI policy researcher; founder of AVERI (AI Verification Initiative); former OpenAI Head of Policy Researchabstains and says:But the main regret I have with this talk is that I wish I had prepared a more for the section on a “CERN for AI.” The idea behind such a project is to pool many countries’ and companies’ resources into a single (possibly physically decentralized) ci...
more AI Verified source (Dec 11, 2024) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (10)Added 6mo agoDaniela DiaconuELLIS scientific coordinator.votes Against and says:Currently, so many needs for innovation are put under the label of AI that there will be no way to address them with a single organisation.
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Build artificial general intelligence
45 opinions
For (26)Added 22d agoRichard 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)Added 8mo agoMustafa 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 Disputed source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (18)Added 8d agoDivya SiddarthFounder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project; researcher on democratic AI governance and public participation in AI developmentvotes Against and says:A better tech future moves from artificial general intelligence to augmented collective intelligence, where AI amplifies rather than replaces human agency.
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Ban autonomous lethal weapons
65 opinions
For (41)Added 9d agoJason CrowU.S. representative from Coloradovotes For and says:I'm somebody that believes that there always must be a human involved in the kill chain, and that we should not be making decisions to take lives based on an AI algorithm. We need to be able to make those decisions as humans, and those are discussion...
more AI Verified source (Jun 12, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (24)Added 1mo agoVinod KhoslaVenture capitalist; Khosla Ventures foundervotes Against and says:Personal view: I admire @AnthropicAI sticking by their principles but disagree with the principle itself. Putin won't fight fair so we should have autonomous AI weapons for sure.
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For (23)Added 14d agoDario AmodeiCEO at Anthropicvotes For and says:
US export controls on frontier chips and SME to China have been a major contributor to the US’s overall lead in AI, and these policies need to be expanded, tightened, and coordinated with other likeminded states.
AI Verified source 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 4mo agoMinistry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of ChinaChina's foreign ministryvotes Against and says:coerced or courted some countries to adopt export restrictions against China. [...] Such bullying acts seriously violate market principles and the international trade order
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AI will create a permanent underclass
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For (1)Added 15d agoKenneth RogoffEconomist; Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University and former Chief Economist of the IMFvotes For and says:Failure, in their eyes, means being left behind while AI automates large swaths of white-collar work – especially coding jobs, which until now have been a veritable licence to print money – and falling into the ranks of the permanent poor.
Unverifiable source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 3mo agoJed KolkoSenior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics; labor economistabstains and says:the evidence on how AI is affecting the labor market today is inconclusive, and claims about harmful impacts on particular groups of workers are premature.
AI Verified source (Mar 10, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (13)Added 15d agoAlex KantrowitzTechnology journalist; founder of the Big Technology newsletter and podcast; CNBC contributorvotes Against and says:Unless AI's rise is accompanied by an edict that people can no longer pursue new companies or initiatives, then the technology can't be a subjugation machine without some accompanying rise in empowerment. [...] Unless you're brutally pessimistic abou...
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AI alignment is solvable
20 opinions
For (9)Added 2mo agoJan LeikeFormer head of alignment at OpenAI; now VP of safety at Anthropicvotes For and says:Alignment is not solved but it increasingly looks solvable [...] Since then a lot has happened: pretraining continued improving and RL became a much bigger deal.
AI Verified source (Jan 22, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (3)Added 3mo agoGeoffrey HintonGodfather of Deep Learningabstains and says:If it takes over that's what will happen. [...] We don't know how to do that. We don't even know if it's possible.
AI Verified source (Apr 3, 2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Added 26d agoMatt LutzMoral philosopher specializing in metaethics and moral epistemology; philosophy faculty member (Wuhan University)votes Against and says:AI alignment is not something that works in theory but is difficult to put into practice. It's something that doesn't work in theory.
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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
36 opinions
For (27)Added 1mo agoValerie FousheeU.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Actvotes For and says:People under the age of 18 should not be able to interact with AI chatbots. These chatbots continue to put the lives and mental health of children at risk, and it is critical for Congress to act immediately.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 3mo agoJosh ShapiroGovernor of Pennsylvaniaabstains and says:Some kids are just too young to understand the difference between AI and a real person. [...] Remember, this is not a person... this is just something you download in the app store. It's not just our kids — these chatbots and the companies behind the...
more Disputed source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Added 3mo agoMolly BuckleyEFF legislative analystvotes Against and says:The GUARD Act doesn’t give parents a choice—it simply blocks minors from AI companions altogether.
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AGI will create abundance
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For (13)Added 1mo agoBill GatesPhilanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.votes For and says: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 AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 4mo agoTim DettmersMachine learning researchervotes Against and says:The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This i...
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For (11)Added 6mo agoGeoffrey HintonGodfather of Deep Learningvotes For and says:
When you open source a big model and give people the weights [...] You get people using that open source model and training it, refining it to do something bad like cyberattacks or making biological weapons because it's much easier to refine the mode...
more Unverifiable source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 8mo agoMarc AndreessenGeneral Partner at a16z (VC), co-founder of Netscapevotes Against and says:there has to be full open source here. [...] if you're worried about AI-generated pathogens, [...] Let's do a Manhattan Project for biological defense.
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