YouCongress Polls

Of course AI will absolutely eliminate some tasks and compress some roles, but the claim that AI will produce economy-wide, permanent unemployment is unhelpful marketing, bad economics and worse history. [...] The future is cheaper intelligence, bigg... more AI Verified 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)

In recent years, artificial intelligence systems have increasingly taken control of the production of texts, music and videos. This puts much of the human creative industry at risk of being dismantled and replaced with the label 'Powered by AI,' turn... more AI Verified source (2026)

Without collective action, artificial intelligence will deepen historical inequalities. [...] The data generated by our citizens, companies, and public bodies is being appropriated by a few conglomerates, with no equivalent compensation in terms of v... more AI Verified source (2026)

Whether AI's benefits are widely shared is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

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 Unverified source (2026)

I do not believe there's going to be like a singular, identifiable point where the economy is going to take off, and there's going to be abundance. [Whether AI's benefits are widely shared] is a political question, has nothing to do with technology. Unverified source (2026)

Without data portability, interoperability, and shared access, the AI ecosystem will calcify around a small group of entrenched incumbents who control the essential asset. Unverified source (2026)

The big winners here are not going to be tech companies. The winners are going to be the broader industry that uses this commodity [...] that, by the way, is abundant. Suddenly productivity goes up and the economy is growing at a faster rate. Unverified source (2026)

With a vastly more productive economy, but much less demand for labor, society would have to rethink the social safety net to ensure that the gains from unprecedented economic growth are shared rather than concentrated among a small group of capital ... 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)

I think quality homes in good locations will be extremely valuable. Those could be taxed more. You could call that a wealth tax, but arguably it is closer to a "housing services tax". [...] You could put higher consumption taxes on items the wealthy ... more Unverified source (2026)

Employers are devastating workers' livelihoods and taking no responsibility for the callous decisions of this unchecked technology. We need stronger guardrails to make sure there is human review and oversight of any decision made by a machine that im... more Unverified source (2026)

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

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)

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)