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Expert opinions on Future Of Work
Quotes, votes and policy statements on Future Of Work from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
633 sourced quotes · 6 statements · 63% for / 34% against overall
Featuring: Jerry Moran Maria Cantwell European Commission Sam Altman Elon Musk Pope Leo XIV
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[🇪🇸 Congreso, Feb 2026] Incentivizing AI adoption in companies to enhance workforce talent
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For (13)Maria CantwellU.S. Senator from Washingtonvotes For and says:Small businesses are the foundation of our economy and AI has the potential to help them maximize opportunities.
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AI will create more jobs than it destroys
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For (52)Dame Nemat Talaat Shafik, DBE, aka Minouche ShafikEconomist; chief economic adviser to UK PM Keir Starmer; former Bank of England Deputy Governor and Director of the LSEvotes For and says:A certain degree of alarmism, which is probably disproportionate [...] People are talking their book and making it sound like you can run a company without any employees in the future.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (3)Pascual RestrepoYale economist; Associate Professor studying automation, AI, and labor markets; frequent collaborator with Nobel laureate Daron Acemogluabstains and says:People have the wrong intuition when they say that if AI can do my job for ten dollars an hour, then my wage falls to ten dollars and my life is terrible. A world where AI can do research or teaching at that cost is a world where AI is extremely capa...
more AI Unverifiable source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (34)Bernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes Against and says:DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
Implement a universal basic income
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For (121)Ioana MarinescuEconomist and Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practicevotes For and says:Having an unconditional series of payments from universal basic income would be an effective safety net for unemployed individuals. [...] Essentially, I'm worried that people who benefit from AI, after the fact, are going to say, 'Well, why do we hav...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (5)Sam AltmanCEO at OpenAIabstains and says:I no longer believe in universal basic income as much as I once did. I'm much more interested in ways where we think about kind of collective ownership. [...] [A] fixed cash payment, although useful and maybe a good idea in some ways, does not get at...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (105)Jeff BezosAmazon founder; Blue Origin ownervotes Against and says:Instead of universal basic income, how about we stop taxing nurses who make $75,000 a year? We don't need to give her universal income yet — let's just stop taking money away from her.
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AGI will create abundance
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For (22)Mark ZuckerbergMeta CEO; Facebook co-foundervotes For and says:In the AI era, it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses. [...] This is important for ensuring that people broadly share in the prosperity created by superintelligence.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (16)Yanis VaroufakisFormer finance minister of Greece, is Professor of Economics at the University of Athensvotes Against and says:Technologies that could free us from drudgery, poverty and environmental collapse instead make life worse for most people in most countries.
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For (37)Pope Leo XIVHead of the Catholic Churchvotes For and says:
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...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (1)Orly 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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For (49)Bernie SandersU.S. Senator from Vermontvotes For and says:
A moratorium will give us time to ensure AI is safe and effective, time to protect our privacy and well-being, time to defend our democracy, and time to make sure the economic gains of this technology benefit the general population, not just a handfu...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Yann LeCunComputer scientist, AI researcherabstains and says:Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology.
AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)Jeong Hee-yongSecretary-General of South Korea's People Power Party (PPP); member of the National Assemblyvotes Against and says:The fruits of the AI industry are not the government's "free safe." This is an anti-market idea that goes against market principles and is no different from socialist-style distribution.
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