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Expert opinions on AI Risk
Sourced quotes, claims, policy proposals and stances on AI Risk from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
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For (169)Patricia FahyNew York State Senator for the 46th District and sponsor of the 2026 TERMINATOR Act on frontier-AI safety oversight.votes For and says:
Before, or concurrently with, deploying a new frontier model or a substantially modified version of an existing frontier model, a large frontier developer shall include in the transparency report required by paragraph (a) of this subdivision, summari...
more AI Verified source (Sep 18, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (13)Kent WalkerGoogle President of Global Affairsvotes Against and says:For the most advanced frontier AI models, an independent, federally overseen, industry-backed organization could set safety standards and verify independent, voluntary audits, similar to how other critical sectors are managed.
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AI might become conscious
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For (54)Martine RothblattFounder and CEO of United Therapeutics; entrepreneur, lawyer, and technologist known for work in biotechnology, organ transplantation, and artificial intelligence.votes For and says:I believe we're there now, and I believe the current models will take us there. The future is just so amazing that we are lucky enough to be born at this moment of time, right when everything is like bursting into a big bang of consciousness.
AI Verified source (Sep 15, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (13)Lucius CaviolaResearcher in moral psychology and artificial intelligence at the University of Cambridge; founder of Cambridge Digital Minds.abstains and says:We will not just one day have an easy answer where everybody will agree.
AI Verified source (Jul 1, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (17)Zach BushPhysician, educator, and author of Biological Elegance.votes Against and says:AI cannot become conscious, nor can any machine aspect of technology or humanity.
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AI labs should conduct risk assessments before high-stakes internal deployment of frontier models
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For (24)Miles KodamaAI policy researcher at AI Futuresvotes For and says:The mainstream take is that an AI lab should assess risk before deploying a new model externally. But I think risk assessment should come way earlier in the model lifecycle. Compare the situation with dangerous bio. We wouldn't find it acceptable for...
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AGI could quickly lead to superintelligence
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For (61)Jacob CoxonAI safety researcher at Anthropic who publicly warned about risks from frontier AI development.votes For and says:Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.
AI Verified source (Sep 9, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (10)votes Against and says:I do not think this will happen. I don’t think that automating AI R&D will rapidly produce domain-general superintelligence. I don’t think that a data centre of geniuses, largely separated from the rest of the economy, will figure out how to cure Alz...
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AI alignment is solvable
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For (31)votes For and says:DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (8)Evan HubingerResearch scientist at Anthropic working on model organisms of misalignment; former Research Fellow at MIRI.abstains and says:Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and ar...
more Unverifiable source (Sep 9, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (32)Dean W. BallAuthor of Hyperdimensionalvotes Against and says:But alignment is no solution: it is an unsolved scientific and technical problem whose solutions—to the extent that we have them—cannot simply be imposed on every AI company operating on Earth.
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For (49)Sirisha RambhatlaProfessor of management science and engineering at the University of Waterloo; director of its Critical Machine Learning Lab.votes For and says:
When the safety guardrails are stripped out of a capable model, it can be used at scale for harm in ways a single person could never manage manually. [...] The leading open-weight models are often not too far behind the best closed models. As they gr...
more AI Verified source (Aug 25, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (3)Daniel CommeyAuthor of a 2026 game-theoretic study of open-weight AI release policy.abstains and says:Restricting access to a dual-use AI model is precautionary only if it delays harmful actors more than defenders. That condition varies across actors: a state agency or organized criminal group may obtain a substitute through theft, distillation, inte...
more AI Verified source (Jul 24, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (54)Marco ArgentiChief Information Officer of Goldman Sachs, speaking publicly on safeguards for open-weight AI models.votes Against and says:If safeguards are properly followed, businesses, including banks, should have enough guarantees to essentially run any model, regardless of where they come from.
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For (78)Oleksandr YaremchukCo-Founder and CTO at Manifold Security.votes For and says:
A model that explains itself less isn't more aligned, it's just harder to catch when it goes wrong.
AI Verified source (Sep 5, 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 Unverifiable source (Jan 5, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (6)Jessica NewmanResearch fellow at UC Berkeley CLTCvotes Against and says:Explainable AI (XAI) is often offered as the answer to the black box problem and is broadly defined as “machine learning techniques that make it possible for human users to understand, appropriately trust, and effectively manage AI.” Around the world...
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For (6)Tim Berners-LeeInventor of the World Wide Webvotes For and says:
I would like to see a CERN for AI [...] where all the top scientists come together and see whether they can make a super intelligence. And, if they can, they contain it into a system where it can't just go out and persuade people to let it run the wo...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (11)Bernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes Against and says:It is irresponsible for society to allow them to move forward and make these products even more advanced. That’s why I am introducing legislation to immediately pause the development of increasingly powerful AI and ban the creation of systems that hu...
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For (17)Mark MacCarthyTech policy scholarvotes For and says:
If mandated AI safety reviews are to have any teeth, they must be accompanied by a ban on dangerous AI models that have failed their assessments. This means that some method must be found to restrict access to dangerous open weight AI models. [...] C...
more AI Verified source (Aug 13, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (11)Andrew NgBaidu; Stanford CS faculty; founded Coursera and Google Brainvotes Against and says:They tried to pass laws to stifle [free open-source AI software]. ... After that narrative lost credibility, and our government no longer believes that, thank God, the same people said, “Oh, AI could create bioweapons.” After the RAND and other studi...
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