YouCongress Polls

There's a 25% chance that the future of AI will go “really, really badly,” Unverified source (2025)

Superintelligence could become extremely powerful and be able to shape the future according to its preferences. If humanity had been sane and had our act together globally, the sensible course of action would be to postpone development of superintel... more Unverified source (2014)

Moreover, frontier AI companies are seeking to develop AI with a specific skill that could very well unlock all others and turbocharge advances: AIs with the ability to advance research in AI. An AI system that would be as capable at AI research as t... more Unverified source (2024)

I think broadly speaking with AI, … rather than coming up with a detailed plan and blueprint in advance, we’ll have to kind of feel our way through this and make adjustments as we go along as new opportunities come into view. […] I think ultimately t... more Unverified source (2025)

which increased my awareness of a possible existential risk for humanity if we do not maintain control over superhuman AI systems. Unverified source (2023)

I don’t think they should scale this up more until they have understood whether they can control it. We’ve entered completely unknown territory. We’re capable of building machines that are stronger than ourselves, but what if we develop machines that... more Unverified source (2023)

Two “extreme” positions both seem false to me. First, you might think that the world would be instantly transformed on the scale of seconds or days (“the Singularity”), as superior intelligence builds on itself and solves every possible scientific, e... more Unverified source (2024)

I don't like the phrase AGI. I prefer human-level intelligence because human intelligence is not general. Internally, we call this AMI-advanced machine intelligence. We have a pretty good plan on how to get there. First, we are building systems that... more Unverified source (2024)

I know that Eliezer thinks that like, we’re all doomed for sure. I buy his doom argument. My p(doom)[...] between 5 and 50 [percent]. Unverified source (2023)

If I could put a pause on AI or really advanced AI, superintelligence, I would. It doesn’t seem that is realistic. Unverified source (2023)

So we’ve already gone from “mere human intelligence” to “human with all knowledge, photographic memory, lightning calculations, and solves problems a hundred times faster than anyone else.” This suggests that “merely human level intelligence” isn’t m... more Unverified source (2015)

“If we pursue [our current approach], then we will eventually lose control over the machines. But, we can take a different route that actually leads to AI systems that are beneficial to humans,” said Russell. “We could, in fact, have a better civiliz... more Unverified source (2023)

I just think that the existential-risk stuff has been [...] a completely bonkers distraction. There’s like 101 more practical issues [...] from privacy to bias [...]. Unverified source (2023)

I really empathize for them, frankly, because they’re so stuck in this race to the bottom that they just feel an irresistible pressure to keep going and not get overtaken by the other guy. I think that’s why it’s so important to stigmatize the race t... more Verified source (2025)

There’s also a lot of hype, that AI will create evil robots with super-intelligence. That’s an unnecessary distraction. Those of us on the frontline shipping code, we’re excited by AI, but we don’t see a realistic path for our software to become sen... more Unverified source (2015)