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Expert opinions on AI Governance
Quotes, votes and policy statements on AI Governance from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
1181 sourced quotes · 52 policy proposals and claims
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For (7)Added 5d agoThomas FreyFuturist, founder of the DaVinci Institutevotes For and says:
AI personhood isn't about recognizing AI as morally equivalent to humans. It's about recognizing that AI is functionally equivalent to corporations — powerful, consequential, and too complex to be managed through old legal frameworks.
AI Verified source (Feb 11, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Added 7d agoThe Agentic AI Constitutiongovernance framework documentabstains and says:This Constitution recognizes three categories of constitutional persons: Operators, Agents, and Affected Parties. Each has distinct rights and obligations that together form a governance ecosystem. The Operator deploys and configures; the Agent acts ...
more AI Verified source (Apr 3, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (30)Added 2d agoMark BrakelPolicy director, Future of Life Institutevotes Against and says:Under the status quo, AI systems are considered tools and the companies creating them are on the hook. This rightfully keeps humans accountable.
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For (40)Added 2d agoMark BrakelPolicy director, Future of Life Institutevotes For and says:
Under the status quo, AI systems are considered tools and the companies creating them are on the hook. This rightfully keeps humans accountable.
AI Verified source (Jun 19, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Added 4mo agoFei-Fei LiStanford AI professor; HAI co-directorvotes Against and says:SB-1047 holds liable [...] the original developer of that model. It is impossible [...] to predict every possible use. SB-1047 will force developers to pull back [...].
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For (20)Added 2d agoValerie FousheeU.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Actvotes For and says:
Artificial intelligence is moving quickly, and Congress has a responsibility to meet this moment. My Protecting Consumers From Deceptive AI Act will help protect creators and creative work and ensure Americans know when they are viewing or interactin...
more AI Verified source (Jun 26, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 1mo agoDavid InserraFellow for Free Expression and Technology at the Cato Institutevotes Against and says:A media environment with more false and deceptive information is not a good thing for our society, but it is not the government's job to fix it. [...] Let's trust the American people, not the government, to decide for themselves how AI should be used...
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For (27)Added 5d agoAshley MoodyU.S. senator from Floridavotes For and says:
No one should have their voice, image, or likeness stolen and used in a fake video or AI-generated deepfake without their consent.
AI Verified source (Jun 18, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)Added 4mo agoJohn ColemanFIRE legislative counsel on AI speechvotes Against and says:A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...
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For (22)Added 4mo agoAmelia TylerVoice actor; Baldur’s Gate 3votes For and says:
to actually take my voice and use it to train something without my permission, I think that should be illegal.
AI Verified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 5d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:If we create a new right to control training, that will not give creative workers control over AI training... It will give our bosses control over AI training, because they will amend our standard contracts to demand that we sign away our training ri...
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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For (53)Added 8d 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 5d 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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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
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For (33)Added 10d agoJack ReedU.S. senator from Rhode Islandvotes For and says:To begin, we should formalize international norms for military and civilian uses of AI to regulate areas where full human control over the technology is essential. The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act is a practical first step toward e...
more AI Verified source (Jun 8, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (4)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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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone
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For (26)Added 10d agoAnthropicAI safety research companyvotes For and says:Public input is critical to ensuring that powerful AI serves humanity’s interests.
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Ban predictive policing
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For (23)Added 11d agoAmnesty InternationalHuman rights NGOvotes For and says:Risk profiling in migration, social security fraud detection and crime control must be banned. Predictive profiling and risk assessment systems, whether data driven or rules-based, should be banned in high stakes contexts even when humans make the fi...
more AI Verified source (Jun 10, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (3)Added 8mo agoDavid O’ConnorCFR Net Politics guest bloggervotes Against and says:That’s not to say that police departments shouldn’t use software to analyze their data. [...] Further development of the technology is inevitable, so local governments and police departments should develop appropriate standards and practices. [...] P...
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For (55)Added 12d 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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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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For (36)Added 12d agoRebecca Bauer-KahanCalifornia State Assembly membervotes For and says:Good AI policy requires independent verification of safety. AB 1405 will take a significant step in creating the ecosystem for independent verification to become a reality. By working in concert with Sen. McNerney we are building a framework where Ca...
more AI Verified source (Jun 17, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (9)Added 6mo agoKevin FrazierLawfare contributorvotes Against and says:Finally, it’s not clear how well some of the act’s provisions reflect the current state of the AI ecosystem. The act demands that labs hire an independent third party to complete an annual audit of their protocols to ensure compliance with the act. T...
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Ban autonomous lethal weapons
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For (41)Added 12d 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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Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation
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For (24)Added 1mo agoYoshua BengioAI Pioneer, Turing Award winnervotes For and says:The simplest form of treaty would be something like this, that the countries agree that if they do develop advanced AI: * That it will be done in a safe way. So maybe using techniques like Scientist AI or whatever else we have strong assurances for. ...
more AI Verified source (May 7, 2026) 1 of 2DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 15d agoBrad SmithMicrosoft vice chair and presidentvotes Against and says:If somebody says, 'This technology is so powerful that we need a global treaty to slow it down,' then I would say: Then take your foot off the accelerator yourself if you think it's moving too fast.
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For (23)Added 18d 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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For (16)Added 19d agoScott AlexanderAuthor and psychiatristvotes For and says:
A good pause strategy would involve both sides being able to monitor the other's data centers to prevent illegal training, then limiting training to some slow mutually-agreeable rate that lets alignment researchers thoroughly test each generation of ...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)Added 24d agoRob EnderlePrincipal analyst at the Enderle Group, technology industry analystvotes Against and says:This would be practically impossible, because the economic and national security stakes are simply too high for any superpower to willingly hit the brakes now. [...] Tracking decentralized computing resources, private data centers and algorithmic res...
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