Expert opinions on Ethics

Under the status quo, AI systems are considered tools and the companies creating them are on the hook. This rightfully keeps humans accountable.

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 [...].

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.

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 ...

Under the status quo, AI systems are considered tools and the companies creating them are on the hook. This rightfully keeps humans accountable.

No one should have their voice, image, or likeness stolen and used in a fake video or AI-generated deepfake without their consent.

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...

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...

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.

Public input is critical to ensuring that powerful AI serves humanity’s interests.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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 alignment is not something that works in theory but is difficult to put into practice. It's something that doesn't work in theory.

Nefarious actors can use open models maliciously, [...] whereas developers of closed models have more means to identify and disrupt this malicious use.

These studies, on their own, are insufficient evidence to demonstrate increased marginal societal risk from open foundation models.

Transparency is the greatest safeguard. [...] When codes are open and shared, millions of young minds can make them safer and better.

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.

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...

The GUARD Act doesn’t give parents a choice—it simply blocks minors from AI companions altogether.

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...

Well, there are positive signs, for instance, like Henry Kissinger was recently suggested in foreign affairs that the US cooperate with China on this issue now, but before it's too late. So I think some people are recognizing the the importance of tr...

I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence.

[...] have access to a person who can quickly consider and remedy problems you encounter. [...] employment [...] incorporate human consideration for adverse or high-risk decisions.

In 2023, the United States saw countless proposals to ban AI technologies, [...] hiring, [...] law soon must embrace AI; [...] prohibit human intervention [...]