YouCongress Polls

We need to extract a pound of flesh from these data centers. [...] I've thought for a long time there's an obligation from the industry to help figure this out and help pay for it. [...] The easiest place to extract the pound of flesh is probably goi... more Unverified source (2026)

Capitalism has also depended on somewhat of a power balance between labor and capital, but if it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. [...] If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now, so I don't... more Unverified source (2026)

Why pick on robots? [...] I don't think simply trying to resist or stop technology is a viable strategy. I don't think it would be a viable strategy if it was adoptable on a global basis, but it's even less viable for a single country in internationa... more Unverified source (2017)

Everybody wants to talk about job loss, but really what you want to look at is task loss. The job persists longer than the individual tasks. Unverified source (2026)

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 Unverified source (2026)

We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment, if we are ready to do the regulatory challenge. Unverified source (2026)

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 Unverified source (2026)

I'm skeptical that Universal Basic Income can get rid of grinding poverty, since somehow humanity's 100-fold productivity increase (since the days of agriculture) didn't eliminate poverty. Verified source (2017)

Although I do not at all like the idea of universal basic income because I don't think it solves many problems, and I think it creates others, I do like the idea of what some people call universal basic wealth where people are granted the endowment o... more Unverified source (2026)

AI is likely to close the technology divide, because it is so easy to use and so abundant and so accessible. [...] I'm optimistic about the potential of AI to lift the countries that are emerging. [...] We need to make sure that the average pensioner... more Unverified source (2026)

For the last-invention story to hold, people would have to become unnecessary even as partners or supervisors to AIs. [...] We would need a world where practical know-how is fully transferable through digital channels and where responsibility can be ... more Unverified source (2026)

help small businesses utilize AI to meet their needs, expand and innovate. Combining these tools with a trained workforce will help make certain the United States is utilizing AI to grow our economy and bolster our world-class businesses. Unverified source (2024)

Automated decisions must be reviewed by a human, and workers must be given the right to appeal AI-driven decisions about [...] hiring and firing [...] Unverified source (2025)

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

The fact is that we're ending mass wage labor. This is what's going on with all the companies I've been working with. Mass labor is disappearing forever. Even if you retrained the entire workforce of Europe so that they would be qualified for these ... more Unverified source (2005)

AI is thus a general-purpose technology that can automate work in virtually every occupation. It stands in contrast to other technologies such as computerisation and industrial robotics, which only allow a limited set of tasks to be automated by impl... more Unverified source (2023)