Expert opinions on AI Policy

If consciousness started to emerge in training, I would call for everyone to stop AI development until we could design out those properties.

Governments must assume their responsibilities. It is the first responsibility of any government to protect its citizens – including from the threats of artificial intelligence. National action is essential. But global coordination is also indispensa...

In view of such apprehensions, AI should be regulated by governments just like pharmaceutical and other industries are regulated for everyone’s safety. AI must be faster, but it must be safer at the same time.

IMDA and CSA are therefore studying how to strengthen the reporting of serious AI-related incidents, including whether additional reporting or information-sharing arrangements are needed. We will draw on international approaches and build on existing...

Rather than creating entirely new channels, policymakers should focus on ensuring that existing channels can effectively incorporate information related to frontier models and agents. Building on trusted relationships will be faster and more effectiv...

Yea this is the most important result of the year, at the level of significance of “Attention Is All You Need”. It brings us from “is alignment even solvable” to “we may solve alignment in the next year.”

I used to always think that, you know, alignment will just fall out. I no longer believe that. So I think this alignment thing may be a harder, different problem.

As I see it, solving alignment for LLMs isn’t just impossible, it’s incoherent: we can’t even articulate what it would look like to succeed.

If Anthropic was just one voice among many, this would not matter. But given its market-leading position and the risk that the industry develops as an oligopoly, society as a whole may wish to have some say over what is good for it. There are ways to...

Alternatively, a second idea suggested by Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal, Nobel Prize winners Paul Krugman and Daron Acemoglu (with co-authors Andrea Manera and Pascual Restrepo) is to rectify the current imbalance of taxation on labor and capita...

To date, BPC has not taken a position on whether AI should be taxed and does not endorse any particular option in this issue brief. [...] The code treats labor and capital differently: Employers owe payroll taxes on wages, while investments in equipm...

AI will most certainly change the labor market. But it has not yet changed the complementary relationship between workers and the tools that make them more productive. Taxing the machines is simply a softer version of the Luddite English textile work...

When an OpenAI engineer sounded the alarm on the rapid pace of AI development, warning that this technology has the potential to have cataclysmic consequences, it wasn’t just deeply alarming—but a call to action. Critically, the 2026 International AI...

The FRONTIER Act is a targeted bill with clear, uniform transparency, and safety standards, instead of a fifty-state patchwork. I'm glad to support this bipartisan effort so that Congress acts before this technology outruns us.

Independent third-party AI auditors will act like financial accounting firms: investigating and verifying safety protocols and legal compliance. They’re a critical part of the safeguards needed around powerful frontier AI models.

You’ll see industry oppose outside auditors and the main reason is they would mandate something that can’t be done [today] in a robust and uniform manner.

The United States has a clear interest in helping its partners and allies navigate this choice strategically, and there are several steps it should take. Most importantly, Washington should develop frameworks to assure more reliable access to the U.S...

I wish to speak in support of Amendment 41, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to which I have added my name. We heard during Committee not only about the out-of-control behaviour from agents running AI models from OpenAI, Google and Me...

Timelines for incident reports are often set with well-intentioned urgency, but if they implicitly assume that root-cause analysis or full impact assessment has already been conducted, they will either produce premature and unreliable reports or plac...

To maximize the effectiveness of such provisions, policymakers should define a sensible range of time frames to report incidents, possibly with a graduated approach according to the gravity of the harm.

The AI Biosecurity Lab will be a major new global institution bringing together world-leading scientific expertise to keep the country safe.

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...

There are many conceivable versions of a “CERN for AI.” But the version that seems politically realistic (a new catch-up lab) probably would not do much for safety, while the versions that would materially improve safety (e.g., pause + merge of all c...

Unsolicited, AI-generated robocalls to voters’ cell phones — when both robocalls and AI have a proven track record of spreading lies and can be particularly deceiving when combined — aren’t just a nuisance; they’re downright dangerous for our democra...

Dialog Lab does not generate, recommend, or support decisions involving any of the following: [...] Hiring decisions. Requests of this kind are declined, and users are redirected to the appropriate human review pathway.

As with any technology, the need for regulation depends on how it is deployed, the nature of harm that may be caused, and whether existing measures are effective in addressing those harms. Where existing measures are assessed to be inadequate and a s...

The extensive disclosure, auditing, and human-review mandates could slow hiring processes, increase administrative costs, and discourage employers—especially smaller ones—from using tools that streamline workforce management.

Which is why US lawmakers put forward legislation, dubbed the ‘Kill Switch Act’, which would require companies to have a way to shut down problematic AI tools. Tragically, the proposal was quickly shot down.

If you’re relying on a ‘kill switch’ to stop an AI agent, you’ve already made a fundamental mistake. A properly governed agent is simply never handed the task, so there is nothing to kill.

The United States must close the gaps in its export control regime for advanced AI chips and SME. This should be done legislatively to ensure durability across administrations. [...] Congress should incorporate these proposals into the FY2027 Nationa...

Our membership is aligned that these bills undermine the American tech stack, and as our Thursday letter demonstrates, there is widespread support for this position across the technology and broader business sectors.

Many developers are improving transparency and offering global opt-out mechanisms, but there is scope to design more granular user controls, supported by “just-in-time transparency” mechanisms that deliver relevant information at the moment of intera...

An opt-out system as proposed by AI companies places burdens and costs on rights holders, as it would require ongoing surveillance to see whether copyright material is being used. We cannot scour the internet and ensure we are opting out on all of th...