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Expert opinions on Future
Quotes, votes and policy statements on Future from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
207 sourced quotes · 5 policy proposals and claims
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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For (53)Added 9d agoBernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes For and says:And by the way, there's the existential threat that as AI becomes smarter than humans, it can [...] become independent and lead to catastrophic impacts.
AI Verified source (Jun 18, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 8mo agoTyler CowenProfessor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Overabstains and says:So when people predict a high degree of existential risk from AGI, I don’t actually think “arguing back” on their chosen terms is the correct response. Radical agnosticism is the correct response, where all specific scenarios are pretty unlikely. Non...
more AI Verified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (31)Added 6d agoCory DoctorowAuthor and digital rights activistvotes Against and says:These fears (or hopes) of a nascent superintelligence that will spontaneously arise if we just give enough computing power and training data to large language models are absurd on their face.
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For (12)Added 1mo agoDuncan Cass-BeggsExecutive Director of the Global AI Risks Initiative at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI); former OECD Senior Counsellor for Strategic Foresightvotes For and says:
[...] And the whole world might have an interest in saying, hold on, wait -- let's not make artificial super intelligence until we can be sure that it can be controlled or done safely. [...] We can have all that while at the same time working togethe...
more AI Verified source (Feb 16, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (16)Added 25d agoNarendra PatelObstetrician and House of Lords peervotes Against and says:I come from the position of saying that moratoriums will not work. But we can work in co-operation with other nations that have already started regulating, such as South Korea and Australia, as well as work with our AI Security Institute in the Unite...
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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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AGI will create abundance
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For (13)Added 1mo agoBill GatesPhilanthropist. Founder and former CEO of Microsoft.votes For and says:There is no upper limit on how intelligent AIs will get or on how good robots will get, and I believe the advances will not plateau before exceeding human levels. [...] AI capabilities will allow us to make far more goods and services with less labor...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Added 4mo agoTim DettmersMachine learning researchervotes Against and says:The concept of superintelligence is built on a flawed premise. The idea is that once you have an intelligence that is as good or better than humans — in other words, AGI — then that intelligence can improve itself, leading to a runaway effect. This i...
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