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Expert opinions on Ethics
Quotes, votes and policy statements on Ethics from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
445 sourced quotes · 16 policy proposals and claims
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For (40)Added 3d 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 (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 8d 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 3d 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 (27)Added 6d 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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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 11d 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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Ban autonomous lethal weapons
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For (41)Added 13d 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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AI alignment is solvable
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For (9)Added 2mo agoJan LeikeFormer head of alignment at OpenAI; now VP of safety at Anthropicvotes For and says: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.
AI Verified source (Jan 22, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (3)Added 4mo agoGeoffrey HintonGodfather of Deep Learningabstains and says: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 Verified source (Apr 3, 2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Added 1mo agoMatt LutzMoral philosopher specializing in metaethics and moral epistemology; philosophy faculty member (Wuhan University)votes Against and says: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.
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For (6)Added 6mo agoKyle MillerResearch analyst at Georgetown's CSET think tankvotes For and says:
Nefarious actors can use open models maliciously, [...] whereas developers of closed models have more means to identify and disrupt this malicious use.
Unverifiable source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 6mo agoStanford Center for Research on Foundation ModelsStanford research center on foundation model AIabstains and says:These studies, on their own, are insufficient evidence to demonstrate increased marginal societal risk from open foundation models.
Disputed source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (17)Added 1mo agoNarendra ModiPrime Minister of Indiavotes Against and says:Transparency is the greatest safeguard. [...] When codes are open and shared, millions of young minds can make them safer and better.
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Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18
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For (27)Added 1mo agoValerie FousheeU.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Actvotes For and says: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.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 3mo agoJosh ShapiroGovernor of Pennsylvaniaabstains and says: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...
more Disputed source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Added 3mo agoMolly BuckleyEFF legislative analystvotes Against and says:The GUARD Act doesn’t give parents a choice—it simply blocks minors from AI companions altogether.
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For (7)Added 1mo agoTim 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.Abstain (1)Added 6mo agoDan HendrycksAI safety researcherabstains and says: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...
more Unverifiable source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (12)Added 1mo agoGuido ReichstadterMarine veteran turned anti-AI activist; co-founder of Stop AI; known for hunger strikes at Anthropic and bridge protests in DC against AGI developmentvotes Against and says: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.
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For (33)Added 4mo agoWhite House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)U.S. White House science officevotes For and says:
[...] have access to a person who can quickly consider and remedy problems you encounter. [...] employment [...] incorporate human consideration for adverse or high-risk decisions.
AI Verified source (2022)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (1)Added 4mo agoOrly LobelLaw professorvotes Against and says:In 2023, the United States saw countless proposals to ban AI technologies, [...] hiring, [...] law soon must embrace AI; [...] prohibit human intervention [...]
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