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Expert opinions on AI Ethics
Quotes, votes and policy statements on AI Ethics from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
563 sourced quotes · 10 statements · 74% for / 25% against overall
Featuring: António Guterres Dario Amodei Stuart J. Russell Geoffrey Hinton Yoshua Bengio Max Tegmark
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For (33)Óscar López ÁguedaSpanish digital transformation minister.votes For and says:
La protección de los menores en internet y la regulación de la IA constituyen un asunto de primer orden.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (3)Juan Luis Pedreño MolinaSpanish deputy (PP)votes Against and says:Members of the Socialist Party, theoretically today you come to tell us that artificial intelligence must be regulated, and you associate it with the most vulnerable people. [...] Look: what you propose already exists. The Artificial Intelligence Act...
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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For (44)Geoffrey HintonGodfather of Deep Learningvotes For and says:Oh, it certainly could, yes. I think anybody who said that there's no way it'll lead to the extinction of humans just isn't facing reality.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (23)David SacksWhite House AI and crypto czarvotes Against and says:AI has become the new climate change. It's this imminent catastrophe that is requiring all this government intervention. But there's very little evidence to support it.
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For (56)Alex BoresNew York State Assemblymembervotes For and says:
New York is poised to be the first government in the United States to do what Americans have been screaming for: require basic guardrails for AI safety. Developers have promised to keep us safe, and this bipartisan bill simply ensures that they keep ...
more AI Verified source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Jason OxmanPresident and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), a global tech industry trade associationvotes Against and says:The U.S. leads when it promotes innovation and security through voluntary frameworks rather than regulation.
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For (39)Colin DeaconIndependent Senator for Nova Scotia, Canada; former technology entrepreneur; advocate for responsible AI, data and innovation policyvotes For and says:
There is AI that is not responding to instructions, to commands, and there are documented cases of that. [...] If we don't consider ways to manage what we know is occurring already, and there is use of autonomous weapons already, if we are not lookin...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (19)Baroness Lloyd of EffraLiz Lloyd; UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for AI and Digital Government (DSIT)votes Against and says:My own view, after talking with colleagues in the AI Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, is that a moratorium would be unenforceable. Instead, I support the proposal made this week by the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to set up a commis...
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AI might become conscious
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For (30)David J. ChalmersPhilosopher of mind, consciousness and AIvotes For and says:Theoretically, I think it's just really interesting to think about, because I'm interested in AI and the possibility that we might one day have AI systems that are actually conscious, actually thinking on par with human beings.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Tom McClellandLecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Cambridge's Department of History and Philosophy of Science; author of "Agnosticism about artificial consciousness" (Mind & Language, 2026)abstains and says: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 AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (16)Gary MarcusProfessor of Psychology and Neural Sciencevotes Against and says:Consciousness is about internal states; the mimicry, no matter how rich, proves very little. [...] consciousness is not about what a creature says, but how it feels. And there is no reason to think that Claude feels anything at all.
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Build artificial general intelligence
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For (31)Alexandr WangChief AI Officer at Meta; founder and former CEO of Scale AIvotes For and says:Our vision is personal superintelligence. AI that knows you, your goals, your interests, and helps you with whatever you're focused on doing. It serves you, whoever you are, wherever you are.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Mustafa 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 AI Verified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (24)Karen HaoTechnology journalist and authorvotes Against and says: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...
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Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally
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For (19)Anders Fogh RasmussenFormer NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark; founder of the Alliance of Democraciesvotes For and says:[I propose a D7 of democratic middle powers — Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the UK — including] a Democratic Technology Initiative to shape standards, align export controls and invest jointly in AI, quantum and space.
AI Unverifiable source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Sriram KrishnanSenior White House Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence; former a16z general partner; former product leader at Microsoft, Meta, Twitter, and Snapvotes Against and says:We want to make sure that the world uses the American AI stack. [...] We also want the world to use our AI model. We want all our allies, including India, to leverage our AI infrastructure.
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Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation
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For (44)Scott BessentU.S. Secretary of the Treasury (2025–present); founder of Key Square Groupvotes For and says:The two AI superpowers are gonna start talking. We're gonna set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward with best practices for AI to make sure non-state actors don't get a hold of these models. [...] The reason we are able to have wholesome d...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Yann LeCunComputer scientist, AI researchervotes Against and says:The question that people are debating is whether it makes sense to regulate research and development of AI. And I don't think it does.
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For (31)Cynthia RudinDuke professor, interpretable ML advocatevotes For and says:
You can't have accountability without transparency. Black box models are not transparent, and they don't mix well with human oversight. Either the human blindly trusts the model—or doesn't trust it at all.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Reid HoffmanLinkedIn co-founder, venture capitalist, author of Superagencyabstains and says:We have a very natural instinct to say: we want as much interpretability as possible. One of the sci-fi worry cases is that agents start speaking in languages to each other that we don't understand. [...] I bet there are ways to define boundaries tha...
more AI Unverifiable source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (12)Scott RobbinsAI ethics researchervotes Against and says:[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option;
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For (32)Centre for Future GenerationsEuropean think tank on emerging technologiesvotes For and says:
Policy and safeguards must evolve just as swiftly [...] requiring safety assurances for powerful open releases before the window for meaningful intervention closes.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Gavin NewsomGovernor of Californiaabstains and says:I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology.
Unverified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (11)Gerald KierceAI governance researchervotes Against and says:Open source models are technically exempt [...] based on the assumption that the system is sufficiently well documented to convey its potential risks.
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