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Expert opinions on Public Interest AI
Quotes, votes and policy statements on Public Interest AI from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
278 sourced quotes · 12 policy proposals and claims
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For (40)Added 3d agoMark BrakelPolicy director, Future of Life Institutevotes For and says:
Under the status quo, AI systems are considered tools and the companies creating them are on the hook. This rightfully keeps humans accountable.
AI Verified source (Jun 19, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (8)Added 4mo agoFei-Fei LiStanford AI professor; HAI co-directorvotes Against and says:SB-1047 holds liable [...] the original developer of that model. It is impossible [...] to predict every possible use. SB-1047 will force developers to pull back [...].
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For (7)Added 5d agoThomas FreyFuturist, founder of the DaVinci Institutevotes For and says:
AI personhood isn't about recognizing AI as morally equivalent to humans. It's about recognizing that AI is functionally equivalent to corporations — powerful, consequential, and too complex to be managed through old legal frameworks.
AI Verified source (Feb 11, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Added 8d agoThe Agentic AI Constitutiongovernance framework documentabstains and says:This Constitution recognizes three categories of constitutional persons: Operators, Agents, and Affected Parties. Each has distinct rights and obligations that together form a governance ecosystem. The Operator deploys and configures; the Agent acts ...
more AI Verified source (Apr 3, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (30)Added 3d agoMark BrakelPolicy director, Future of Life Institutevotes Against and says:Under the status quo, AI systems are considered tools and the companies creating them are on the hook. This rightfully keeps humans accountable.
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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone
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For (26)Added 11d agoAnthropicAI safety research companyvotes For and says:Public input is critical to ensuring that powerful AI serves humanity’s interests.
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Ban autonomous lethal weapons
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For (41)Added 13d agoJason CrowU.S. representative from Coloradovotes For and says:I'm somebody that believes that there always must be a human involved in the kill chain, and that we should not be making decisions to take lives based on an AI algorithm. We need to be able to make those decisions as humans, and those are discussion...
more AI Verified source (Jun 12, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (24)Added 1mo agoVinod KhoslaVenture capitalist; Khosla Ventures foundervotes Against and says:Personal view: I admire @AnthropicAI sticking by their principles but disagree with the principle itself. Putin won't fight fair so we should have autonomous AI weapons for sure.
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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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For (7)Added 1mo agoTim Berners-LeeInventor of the World Wide Webvotes For and says:
I would like to see a CERN for AI [...] where all the top scientists come together and see whether they can make a super intelligence. And, if they can, they contain it into a system where it can't just go out and persuade people to let it run the wo...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Added 6mo agoDan HendrycksAI safety researcherabstains and says:Well, there are positive signs, for instance, like Henry Kissinger was recently suggested in foreign affairs that the US cooperate with China on this issue now, but before it's too late. So I think some people are recognizing the the importance of tr...
more Unverifiable source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (12)Added 1mo agoGuido ReichstadterMarine veteran turned anti-AI activist; co-founder of Stop AI; known for hunger strikes at Anthropic and bridge protests in DC against AGI developmentvotes Against and says:I call on the governments of the world to take immediate action to end this danger by permanently banning the development of artificial general intelligence and machine superintelligence.
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