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Expert opinions on Regulations
Sourced quotes, claims, policy proposals and stances on Regulations from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
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For (547)Andrew BudFounder and CEO of iProov; technology entrepreneur, Chartered Engineer, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering specializing in biometric identity assurance.votes For and says:For organizations to realize the full potential of agentic AI, they need to task agents with increasingly consequential responsibilities. But some actions must remain subject to human control, approval and accountability.
AI Verified source (Nov 4, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Gabriel SzeUniversity of Portsmouth researcher writing on AI governance, accountability, and human oversight of agentic systems.abstains and says:Existing responsible AI governance frameworks mandate human oversight. Yet they share a critical assumption: that competent human overseers remain present and capable of exercising meaningful oversight and control over AI decisions. Accountability mu...
more AI Verified source (Apr 20, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (15)Garrett GrossField Chief Information Security Officer at Portnox, an enterprise access-control provider.votes Against and says:A lot of tools can tell you an AI agent is behaving strangely. Very few can act on that at the network layer, without waiting on a human to approve a ticket. That’s the piece we’re closing.
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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone
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For (195)Hugo DixonReuters Commentator-at-Large and philosopher; founding chair and editor-in-chief of Breakingviews.votes For and says:If Anthropic was just one voice among many, this would not matter. But given its market-leading position and the risk that the industry develops as an oligopoly, society as a whole may wish to have some say over what is good for it. There are ways to...
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Slow down AI development
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For (138)Mustafa SuleymanMicrosoft AI CEO; authorvotes For and says:If consciousness started to emerge in training, I would call for everyone to stop AI development until we could design out those properties.
AI Verified source (Nov 2, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (17)António GuterresUN Secretary-Generalabstains and says:Governments must assume their responsibilities. It is the first responsibility of any government to protect its citizens – including from the threats of artificial intelligence. National action is essential. But global coordination is also indispensa...
more AI Verified source (Sep 16, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (37)Arvind KrishnaIBM chairman and CEOvotes Against and says:It's actually impossible to control it unless we think the entire world is going to sing kumbaya and say let's slow down, which as you said is unlikely. So if that's the case, fine. You put slowdown here maybe. Well, okay. Does it mean Japan slows do...
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For (181)Jerry McNerneyCalifornia state senatorvotes For and says:
We can put these companies on notice that they’re going to be evaluated by folks that understand the process, that understand the technology, and will be transparent and hold them accountable so that they create safe products, and they don’t send out...
more AI Verified source (Oct 31, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (3)Andrew YoonMember of the technical staff at CivAI, a nonprofit that analyzes AI capabilities and risks.abstains and says:It’s a very thorny area. It’s uncharted territory. There’s a good argument to be made on either side.
AI Verified source (Jul 13, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (20)David SacksWhite House AI and crypto czarvotes Against and says:I just don’t think the developer is in a position to know exactly how their product is being used.
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States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government
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For (111)Patricia FahyNew York State Senator for the 46th District and sponsor of the 2026 TERMINATOR Act on frontier-AI safety oversight.votes For and says:When an OpenAI engineer sounded the alarm on the rapid pace of AI development, warning that this technology has the potential to have cataclysmic consequences, it wasn’t just deeply alarming—but a call to action. Critically, the 2026 International AI...
more Unverifiable source (Oct 29, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (28)Scott PetersU.S. Representative from California's 50th congressional district; co-sponsor of the FRONTIER Act.votes Against and says:The FRONTIER Act is a targeted bill with clear, uniform transparency, and safety standards, instead of a fifty-state patchwork. I'm glad to support this bipartisan effort so that Congress acts before this technology outruns us.
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Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems
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For (206)Bruce BarcottEditorial Lead at Transparency Coalition.AI; environmental journalist and author.votes For and says:Independent third-party AI auditors will act like financial accounting firms: investigating and verifying safety protocols and legal compliance. They’re a critical part of the safeguards needed around powerful frontier AI models.
AI Verified source (Oct 28, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (21)Paul LekasSIIA public policy executivevotes Against and says:You’ll see industry oppose outside auditors and the main reason is they would mandate something that can’t be done [today] in a robust and uniform manner.
AI Verified source (Jul 8, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (118)Lawrence WongPrime Minister of Singapore.votes For and says:
And as a first step, I suggest that interested parties and countries can come together to launch a pilot around AI incident reporting. We can start by agreeing on a common set of incident categories and information to be shared. We can explore how pa...
more AI Verified source (Oct 28, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (1)Chris MeseroleExecutive Director of the Frontier Model Forum; AI policy expert and congressional witness on frontier AI security.votes Against and says:Rather than creating entirely new channels, policymakers should focus on ensuring that existing channels can effectively incorporate information related to frontier models and agents. Building on trusted relationships will be faster and more effectiv...
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For (108)Lord TarassenkoDavid James Tarassenko, Baron Tarassenko; British engineer, academic, and crossbench member of the UK House of Lords.votes For and says:
I wish to speak in support of Amendment 41, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Harding, to which I have added my name. We heard during Committee not only about the out-of-control behaviour from agents running AI models from OpenAI, Google and Me...
more AI Verified source (Oct 26, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Frontier Model ForumFrontier AI industry forumabstains and says:Timelines for incident reports are often set with well-intentioned urgency, but if they implicitly assume that root-cause analysis or full impact assessment has already been conducted, they will either produce premature and unreliable reports or plac...
more AI Verified source (May 12, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (6)Laura CaroliPolitical adviser on the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee; former senior fellow at CSIS’s Wadhwani AI Center.votes Against and says:To maximize the effectiveness of such provisions, policymakers should define a sensible range of time frames to report incidents, possibly with a graduated approach according to the gravity of the harm.
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For (79)Yaim CooperMathematician studying the foundations of deep learning and AI’s societal impacts.votes For and says:
External evaluators should be embedded at AI companies, but they should not be restricted to AI safety researchers, and they should not be selected by the company being evaluated. Rather, they should represent communities across society, address a mu...
more AI Verified source (Oct 23, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)tropoFarmerPublic AI and technology commentator.abstains and says:the bad news: Dario estimates that in 6 months AI will have the ability to take over the internet the worse news: Anthropic's current commitment to stopping this is... putting independent evaluators in desks in their office have a great day
AI Verified source (Sep 12, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (4)Lilian EdwardsInternet law professorvotes Against and says:They really become part of the company, which makes it difficult to criticize it because the staffers become almost your friends.
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For (37)Shanna PortsSenior Legal Counsel, Campaign Finance at Campaign Legal Center.votes For and says:
Unsolicited, AI-generated robocalls to voters’ cell phones — when both robocalls and AI have a proven track record of spreading lies and can be particularly deceiving when combined — aren’t just a nuisance; they’re downright dangerous for our democra...
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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance
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For (121)Jon McCray JonesPolicy Analyst at the ACLU of Wisconsin.votes For and says:We Must End AI-Powered Mass Surveillance, Not Switch Vendors. [...] ALPR’s don’t need a marketing rebrand – they need to be banned.
AI Verified source (Oct 22, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Jasleen ChaggarSenior Legal and Policy Officer at Big Brother Watch, a civil-liberties campaign group.abstains and says:This has effectively given police a very long leash to experiment with these technologies. And now we're in a tipping point situation where it's about to be expanded all over the country, and there's a real necessity for those legal frameworks to be ...
more Unverifiable source (Aug 7, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)MoMo ZhouVice President of Communications at Flock Safety.votes Against and says:We ask them to work with the communities using this technology to decide what rules should govern it and not to spread misinformation or ban a critical public safety tool outright that is helping to make communities safer.
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For (161)Global Call for AI Red LinesInternational civil-society declaration and campaign, launched at the UN in 2025, seeking enforceable prohibitions on unacceptable AI uses.votes For and says:
A Global Call for AI Red Lines, launched at the UN General Assembly in September 2025, calls for categorical prohibitions on what an AI system may be built or used to do and presses governments to conclude a binding international agreement.
AI Verified source (Oct 22, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (1)Naval RavikantCEO of AngelListabstains and says:AI isn’t going away. Barring unprecedented global government coordination, it isn’t even slowing down. The only real decision is whether to centralize power, or disperse it. Do you fear the technology? Or a small number of people controlling the te...
more AI Verified source (Sep 12, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (14)Donald J. TrumpU.S. President (2025–present)votes Against and says:The United States totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme of control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now – hereinafter officially called super intelligence.
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For (84)Design It For UsYouth-led coalition advocating responsible technology policy and protections for young people.votes For and says:
Governments should be prohibited from using AI systems for mass surveillance. The right to privacy is a fundamental right we outline in our Declaration of Digital Rights. Data brokers and negligent data practices have allowed large amounts of persona...
more AI Verified source (Oct 21, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (5)Lord Clement-JonesTim Clement-Jones, Baron Clement-Jones CBE; Liberal Democrat peer; UK House of Lords AI policy expertabstains and says:The use of live facial recognition in our public spaces is an extraordinary expansion of state power that currently exists in a legal vacuum. We are not Luddites on these Benches; we recognise the utility of technology, but we must ensure that live f...
more AI Verified source (Mar 9, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (5)Alistair EnserExecutive at Reliance High-Tech writing on facial-recognition policy and video analytics.votes Against and says:I have grave concerns that banning technology until it is legislated will choke innovation, it will drive genuine use cases away, and as technology is always developing, are we not in danger of ‘tomorrow never comes’ when it comes to legislation keep...
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For (161)Dawn ButlerLabour Member of Parliament for Brent East in the United Kingdom.votes For and says:
make provision about a requirement for consent to generate a likeness of a person using, or with the assistance of, artificial intelligence; to make further provision relating to that requirement; to make provision about civil action in circumstances...
more AI Verified source (Oct 20, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)John ColemanFIRE legislative counsel on AI speechvotes Against and says:A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...
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For (354)Dialog LabAI-powered workplace conversation-readiness platform that does not make employment decisions.votes For and says:
Dialog Lab does not generate, recommend, or support decisions involving any of the following: [...] Hiring decisions. Requests of this kind are declined, and users are redirected to the appropriate human review pathway.
AI Verified source (Oct 19, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Ministry of Digital Development and Information (Singapore)Singapore government ministry responsible for national digital development and information policy, including AI governance.abstains and says:As with any technology, the need for regulation depends on how it is deployed, the nature of harm that may be caused, and whether existing measures are effective in addressing those harms. Where existing measures are assessed to be inadequate and a s...
more AI Verified source (Jul 7, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (3)Daniel O'KeefeCommissioner of Connecticut's Department of Economic and Community Development.votes Against and says:The extensive disclosure, auditing, and human-review mandates could slow hiring processes, increase administrative costs, and discourage employers—especially smaller ones—from using tools that streamline workforce management.
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