Expert opinions on Ethics

It is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems. [...] The decision to use lethal force cannot be delegated to opaque or automated processes, but must remain under effective, self-aware and responsibl...

At first, lethal autonomous weapons systems that cannot guarantee use in conformity with international humanitarian law — that is, systems that are intrinsically indiscriminate; systems whose effects cannot be limited, anticipated and controlled; sys...

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.

There are good reasons to use AI technology to advance our national security, however — just as with any tool, we cannot depend on technology alone to guide us, particularly when the risks of harm can be fatal. My legislation would [...] ensure that ...

Objective-driven AI systems will be safe and will remain under our control, because we set their objectives and guardrails and they can't deviate from them. Agentic systems can plan action sequences to accomplish a task, subject to safety guardrails ...

[Google's AI Overviews are] the defendant's own statements [...] it alone has influence over the AI's offering and the algorithms with which the AI operates.

We support approaches like this because they focus on what matters most: Reducing the risk of serious harm from the most advanced AI systems while still allowing this technology to get into the hands of the people and businesses — small and big — of ...

It's jarring when you see it in real time, this sort of bubbly persona with some of the abliterated models that's like, 'Oh, what a great idea to create this bomb.'

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

Transparency is the greatest safeguard. [...] Open code and shared development will allow millions of young minds to make AI better and safer.

AI is reshaping public services, democratic institutions and everyday life at a pace that has outrun meaningful public input. The Data and AI Exchange was designed to show that when stakeholders are given the time and structure to deliberate seriousl...

I definitely don't think we should align it to a specific philosophical theory that is not really robust for the real world, but actually getting public input for a lot of topics is very difficult because the public has not had the time to think abou...

Last week, we saw AI misuse lead to the early retirement of one Chief Constable. Now, the police reportedly plan to use AI to usher in an era of 'predictive policing', targeting criminals before they commit crimes. This is unbelievably unwise. The us...

If you talk about live facial recognition or predictive policing, there will be bias. [...] There is no point releasing something to policing that has bias in it that's not recognised, and everything should be done to minimise it to a level where it ...

The harms are unfolding in real time, they aren't hypothetical. AI chatbots have already had sexually abusive conversations with children. [...] The GUARD Act will help to protect minors from these harms by deliberately ensuring that violations are p...

AI has incredible potential to transform society. At the same time, of course, there are risks that we must mitigate as a state, especially to young people. So I speak partly as a governor, but also as the father of teenage twins who grapple with thi...

We want to make sure that kids are okay in the space. But if a kid or a group of kids, or a generation, let's say, is unable to access these types of tools now as they progress exponentially, you're essentially cutting off a huge benefit for them and...

Overall, our impression is, as we hypothesized in our discussion of Claude's constitution, that teaching the principles underlying aligned behavior can be more effective than training on demonstrations of aligned behavior alone.

We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines—the so-called "alignment" of AI with human values—without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical framework...

There's a problem in the industry called the alignment problem. How do you get a machine to obey instructions basically, and ideally make it compatible with humans. And so far, we've made almost no progress on that. [...] We as a field have made almo...

When data and algorithms influence credit distribution, personnel selection or access to services and opportunities, it is necessary that decisions be understandable, contestable and subject to oversight, so that individuals are not reduced to mere p...

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

In a context in which the high level of computerization of financial tools imposes increasingly elaborate and artificial forms of mediation in interpersonal relationships, you — heirs to a great tradition of human attentiveness — are called to ensure...

With agentic AI, experienced auditors would be supported by autonomous agents, allowing them to dedicate more attention to complex and judgment-oriented procedures.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to expand access, improve efficiency and strengthen retail financial services, but only if trust and accountability remain firmly at the center. The priority now is operational clarity: clear guidance on how ...

AI deepfakes that impersonate physicians are not just scams—they are a public health and safety crisis. When bad actors exploit a doctor's identity, they undermine patient trust and can steer people toward harmful, unproven care.

Without provisions that allow for fair use and free expression online, this legislation would dramatically change the internet.

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...

To mitigate the “race to God-like AI,” Ian Hogarth—chair of the U.K. AI Safety Institute—proposed an “Island model,” in which a joint international lab performs research on superintelligence in a highly secure facility. An essential part of this pro...

So the the prototypical situation I'm imagining here is you know there's a kind of one ai project, which is you know somewhat ahead of the others, and maybe it it goes through intelligence explosion, whereas which by which I mean kind of AI can autom...

to demand meaningful human control, which ensures responsibility and accountability, in any use of force. [...] It is a world that rejects the automation of killing.

This strategy will accelerate our advantage, and we must implement it with the Warrior Ethos. Consistent with the refocusing of the Department onto a wartime footing, I expect the following approaches to become internalized as essential elements of o...

It’s a CERN or DARPA for AI. Many of the US’s biggest technological innovations in the 20th century came out of the research labs at firms like AT&T, Xerox, and IBM. But those firms still had profits in their sights, not societal goals. DARPA, howeve...

In our initial report, we estimated that establishing CERN for AI requires €30–35 billion over the first three years—an investment that would yield cascading benefits for Europe’s future. The initiative would be funded primarily through core contribu...