YouCongress Polls

Several state-of-the-art language models, when presented with a simple task, sometimes actively subvert a shutdown mechanism in their environment to complete that task — doing so up to 97% of the time, even with an explicit instruction not to interfe... more Unverified source (2026)

There's not one big magic red button that blows up the data centre, which I think some people sort of assume exists. Unverified source (2026)

Our position is the government has to know about this stuff, and we have to find new ways for the government to partner with a private sector that is making things that are truly revolutionizing the economy, but are going to have aspects to them whic... more Unverified source (2026)

According to the proposed rule, a covered US person will be required to provide quarterly reports to BIS if the US person “engages in, or plans, within six months, to engage in ‘applicable activities.’” “Applicable activities” include: “Conducting a... more Unverified source (2024)

Canada should publicly recognize superintelligent AI as a national and global security threat. [...] Canada should protect its citizens at home and lead by example abroad by prohibiting the development of superintelligent AI on its soil. Unverified source (2026)

The idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it, others will do so nearly as fast. [...] Even if all Western companies stopped their work on AI, authoritarian countries wo... more Unverified source (2026)

The historical record is clear: Innovation waves are disruptive, capital-intensive and often volatile. They can displace workers, concentrate gains early and provoke political backlash. But over time, they raise productivity, restructure labor market... more 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)

Job loss is going to happen. [...] I wouldn't be surprised if we are at the beginning of decades of job displacement. Unverified source (2026)

We are extremely close to recursive self-improvement right now. The companies, I think, are planning to do this in the next 12 months. The asteroid is coming for Earth. Unverified source (2026)

Computer scientists often aren't good judges of the social and political implications of technology. They are so focused on the AI's mechanisms and are overwhelmed by its success, but they are not very good at placing it into a social and historical ... more Unverified source (2026)

We must ensure our allies align their export controls with American standards — through diplomacy if possible, but unilaterally if necessary. Unverified source (2026)

coerced or courted some countries to adopt export restrictions against China. [...] Such bullying acts seriously violate market principles and the international trade order Unverified source (2023)

We somehow have to have a way of — when AI agents replace people — doing what Bill Gates has suggested recently. We have to have a way of taxing the AI agents, so there's still a tax base. 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)

I don't think anyone under the age of 18 should be in a synthetic relationship. Unverified source (2026)

Competition, innovation, and speech options will be limited as a result of these moves. Unverified source (2026)

It is fundamental to retain human control and judgement in the use of force, and a moratorium on the development and use of lethal autonomous weapons systems should be established immediately. Unverified source (2026)

To the second part of your question, I am strongly in favor of discussions internationally about things like norms. I think with this point, it would be counterproductive to have outright bans on things that people don't even fully understand what th... more Unverified source (2019)

A citizens' assembly brings together a group of everyday people, selected by lottery, to reflect the wider population, to learn, deliberate and make recommendations on major public issues. [...] Later this year, discussions on Artificial Intelligence... more Unverified source (2026)

Increasingly complex AI cases require juries of experts and professional peers rather than a random selection of citizens. Unverified source (2023)

Surprisingly, even though the lack of reliability of AI agents is well known, right now the AI industry doesn't have good tools for measuring reliability, or even a good definition of reliability. [...] For autonomous operation in high-stakes context... more Unverified source (2026)

A "human in the loop" whose sole function is to approve a machine's actions is not a safeguard but a design failure. [...] In high-stakes environments, the illusion of human oversight is worse than no oversight at all. It creates confidence without c... more Unverified source (2026)

We polled people in Illinois, asking whether they think AI companies should be exempt from liability, and 90 percent of people oppose it. There's no reason existing AI companies should be facing reduced liability. Unverified source (2026)

This [...] legislation could [...] subjecting [...] to lawsuits [...]. The bill is overly broad [...] subject to litigation. [...] could subject online services to costly [...] lawsuits. Unverified source (2023)

In the blueprint, we talk, for instance, about incident reporting that's modeled a little bit after how the aviation industry does things whenever there's kind of a near miss or any incidents, however minor, that kind of gets reported to a database s... more Unverified source (2026)

If you have to report to 50 different state regulators at 50 different times with 50 different definitions, it's extremely onerous. And it's going to slow down innovation, and it's going to hinder our progress in the AI race. Unverified source (2025)

California leads in AI, and we're going to use every tool we have to ensure companies protect people's rights, not exploit them or put them in harm's way. [...] While others in Washington are designing policy and creating contracts in the shadow of m... more Unverified source (2026)

The United States cannot remain competitive if developers, businesses, and users face fifty different legal regimes governing a general-purpose technology. [...] Congress should take this recommendation seriously and establish a light-touch national ... more Unverified source (2026)

It may be a good thing that [AI development is] not as fast. There's a whole bunch of other things that we need to think through with this technology [...] We don't have a lot of time to sort out before we get to [Artificial General Intelligence]. Unverified source (2026)

Those compliance costs are merely the beginning. The bill, if passed, would feed California regulators truckloads of company information that they will use to design a compliance industrial complex. Unverified source (2025)