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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.

The biggest problem is that not only do they have nondisclosure agreements, they also have a mandatory arbitration clause, which means disputes never see the light of day.

Connecticut already has strong whistleblower laws that protect employees from retaliation. [...] creating a separate, AI-specific whistleblower regime could lead to confusion, duplication, and unintended consequences for employers operating in highly...

Our vision is personal superintelligence. AI that knows you, your goals, your interests, and helps you with whatever you're focused on doing. It serves you, whoever you are, wherever you are.

This is going to be the most productive decade in the history of our species. But in order to truly reap the benefits of AI, we need to learn how to contain it. Paradoxically, part of that will mean collectively saying no to certain forms of progress...

This scale is unnecessary. You do not need this scale of AI and compute to realize the benefits. Indeed, if we really want AI to be broadly beneficial, we urgently need to shift away from this approach. [...] The kinds of AI systems that dominate our...

[I propose a D7 of democratic middle powers — Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the UK — including] a Democratic Technology Initiative to shape standards, align export controls and invest jointly in AI, quantum and space.

We want to make sure that the world uses the American AI stack. [...] We also want the world to use our AI model. We want all our allies, including India, to leverage our AI infrastructure.

The two AI superpowers are gonna start talking. We're gonna set up a protocol in terms of how do we go forward with best practices for AI to make sure non-state actors don't get a hold of these models. [...] The reason we are able to have wholesome d...

The question that people are debating is whether it makes sense to regulate research and development of AI. And I don't think it does.

To effectively address the pressing issue of technological sovereignty in AI, a coalition of EU member states and like-minded countries should commit themselves to creating a CERN for AI worthy of the name. [...] When 12 European nations established ...

Because, you know, those things are, those things, people want those things. People want compute. They want data. And humans are humans and we do compete. And it’s important to convene people so that we dilute that ability of competition, because thi...

I sometimes talk about setting up an international CERN equivalent for AI where all the best minds in the world would collaborate together and do the final steps in a very rigorous scientific way involving all of society, maybe philosophers and socia...

[...] calls for a CERN-like open-source collaboration among the United States and allied countries to establish an international "supercomputing research facility".

Through the different interactions we had with the scientific community, we thought the best way forward is to have networking of what exists in Europe and strengthening of what exists, instead of creating new infrastructures.

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...

To mitigate the “race to God-like AI,” Ian Hogarth—chair of the U.K. AI Safety Institute—proposed an “Island model,” in which a joint international lab performs research on superintelligence in a highly secure facility. An essential part of this pro...

So the the prototypical situation I'm imagining here is you know there's a kind of one ai project, which is you know somewhat ahead of the others, and maybe it it goes through intelligence explosion, whereas which by which I mean kind of AI can autom...

You can't understand whether these AI systems are good or bad, safe or harmful, if you don't know what's in them. We need transparency. [...] We need to invest in far healthier and more vibrant AI ecosystems where academia and the community can produ...

This is simple: if your work is used to train AI, there should be a way for you, the copyright holder, to determine that it's been used by a training model, and you should get compensated if it was. We need to give America's musicians, artists, and c...

Providing an opt-out to all individuals [...] This is not only a practical impossibility, but also not desirable

Policy and safeguards must evolve just as swiftly [...] requiring safety assurances for powerful open releases before the window for meaningful intervention closes.

I do not believe this is the best approach to protecting the public from real threats posed by the technology.

Open source models are technically exempt [...] based on the assumption that the system is sufficiently well documented to convey its potential risks.

This paper presents a governance framework for AI systems, designed to ensure verifiable compliance with the EU AI Act, integrating an evaluation system with metrics.

We don’t need a law that gives us permission to do what we know is right.

Kersting argues that Europe urgently needs a central institution to coordinate and advance the development of trustworthy, European-made AI technologies.

In response, Europe has launched "InvestAI," a €20 billion plan to build 4–5 AI gigafactories across EU member states by end of 2025.

It’s a CERN or DARPA for AI. Many of the US’s biggest technological innovations in the 20th century came out of the research labs at firms like AT&T, Xerox, and IBM. But those firms still had profits in their sights, not societal goals. DARPA, howeve...

In our initial report, we estimated that establishing CERN for AI requires €30–35 billion over the first three years—an investment that would yield cascading benefits for Europe’s future. The initiative would be funded primarily through core contribu...