Expert opinions on Regulations

Small businesses are the foundation of our economy and AI has the potential to help them maximize opportunities.

It is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems. [...] The decision to use lethal force cannot be delegated to opaque or automated processes, but must remain under effective, self-aware and responsibl...

At first, lethal autonomous weapons systems that cannot guarantee use in conformity with international humanitarian law — that is, systems that are intrinsically indiscriminate; systems whose effects cannot be limited, anticipated and controlled; sys...

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.

There are good reasons to use AI technology to advance our national security, however — just as with any tool, we cannot depend on technology alone to guide us, particularly when the risks of harm can be fatal. My legislation would [...] ensure that ...

Objective-driven AI systems will be safe and will remain under our control, because we set their objectives and guardrails and they can't deviate from them. Agentic systems can plan action sequences to accomplish a task, subject to safety guardrails ...

[Google's AI Overviews are] the defendant's own statements [...] it alone has influence over the AI's offering and the algorithms with which the AI operates.

We support approaches like this because they focus on what matters most: Reducing the risk of serious harm from the most advanced AI systems while still allowing this technology to get into the hands of the people and businesses — small and big — of ...

Voluntary security programs can work, but only when they create real accountability. [...] Without that structure, a voluntary process could look reassuring without materially reducing risk.

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...

The change in the EO from a 90 day to 30 day period is a game changer because it allows our AI labs to comply with the voluntary framework without delaying new model releases.

SB 315 takes the safety practices leading labs already follow voluntarily—publishing a safety framework, transparent reporting, protecting whistleblowers—and helps establish a baseline that every leading AI developer is expected to meet. [...] Illino...

Rather than allow protections to exist in only a handful of states or force innovators to navigate dozens of different legal regimes, our framework would establish one national standard.

Communist China and its accomplices continue to smuggle advanced AI chips to undermine the US and threaten our national security. My bipartisan Chips Security Act would ensure our chips don't illegally fall into the hands of our adversaries.

Back in 2022, I supported the Biden chip-export controls on China. After a week with Chinese AI researchers and tech leaders, I've changed my mind. The controls are not working, and they obstruct another strategy that just might work. [...]

We are approaching a runaway to superintelligence that could threaten our shared human future. Both publicly and privately, AI companies are recognizing that a pause or slowdown in certain developmental pathways is crucial to protect lives and liveli...

the mechanisms most needed for treaty verification [...] are also the least mature.

Signs you might be trying to get your frontier AI lab nationalized: You compare it to nukes… threaten half of white-collar jobs… warn recursive self-improvement could end humanity… then race ahead anyway. In other words, you want the government to sa...

La protección de los menores en internet y la regulación de la IA constituyen un asunto de primer orden.

Members of the Socialist Party, theoretically today you come to tell us that artificial intelligence must be regulated, and you associate it with the most vulnerable people. [...] Look: what you propose already exists. The Artificial Intelligence Act...

AI is reshaping public services, democratic institutions and everyday life at a pace that has outrun meaningful public input. The Data and AI Exchange was designed to show that when stakeholders are given the time and structure to deliberate seriousl...

I definitely don't think we should align it to a specific philosophical theory that is not really robust for the real world, but actually getting public input for a lot of topics is very difficult because the public has not had the time to think abou...

For years, I've been ringing the alarm bells about the dangers of a national surveillance state built on facial recognition technology. Now, we're seeing Trump's lawless federal agents deploy this technology on our streets across the nation as he tri...

Facial biometrics is the bedrock of what we're trying to do to make sure that we know who the people are that are coming into this country, and that all the vetting and security, the apparatus that we have that goes beyond it, is really compounded on...

There needs to be an agency really in charge of overseeing these kinds of decisions. [...] As the power of AI continues to grow, this question of international commitment becomes pressing.

[This is] a significant overreach of the U.N.'s mandate and competence. We will not cede authority over AI to international bodies that may be influenced by authoritarian regimes seeking to impose their vision of controlled surveillance societies.

We need to take heed when the leaders in this field say that there need to be safety precautions taken with this rapidly developing technology. The RAISE Act will ensure there are protocols in place in the event of a major security risk and help New ...

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.

New York is poised to be the first government in the United States to do what Americans have been screaming for: require basic guardrails for AI safety. Developers have promised to keep us safe, and this bipartisan bill simply ensures that they keep ...

The U.S. leads when it promotes innovation and security through voluntary frameworks rather than regulation.

[What] was frightening about this demonstration was how readily available some of this content or software is on kind of the black market right now, and how it can be weaponized and used to manipulate people, destroy lives and build weapons of mass d...

In a time dominated by open-weight biological AI models developed across the globe, limiting access to sensitive pathogen data to legitimate researchers might be one of the most promising avenues for risk reduction.

We've always made the assessment that the benefits to the world far outweigh the dangers. [...] as capabilities increase, I think that's going to be an important question to keep considering.