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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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Democratic legitimacy

Many quotes argue that alignment decisions embed moral visions, tradeoffs, and rules about whose interests count. Because these choices affect society at large, they say they should be made through democratic processes and public oversight rather than by AI labs, CEOs, or other private actors alone.

We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines — the so-called “alignment” of AI with human values — without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frameworks involved and subjecting …

Pope Leo XIV · May 15, 2026 · full quote
key decisions about AI are made via democratic processes and with egalitarian principles, and not just made by AI labs.

Sam Altman · 2026 · full quote
The direction of AI is currently determined by a small group of companies [...] We are seeing the construction of an oligarchy that responds solely to its own interests. The governance of artificial intelligence should be in the hands of the people, not a small group of individua…

Pedro Sánchez · 2026 · full quote
Legislatures and regulators face significant challenges in rapidly translating conventional command-and-control legal requirements into technical requirements. [...] Overreliance on industry to provide technical standards fails to ensure that the many values-based decisions that …

Gillian Hadfield · 2026 · full quote
The more immediate and tangible risk is the concentration of AI decisionmaking in a handful of individuals responsible primarily to themselves and their shareholders. [...] When a handful of companies make consequential choices about model behavior, data use, and system deploymen…

Tom Wheeler · 2026 · full quote
But in the future, who should decide where to draw the line and how to weigh the pros and cons? CEOs of companies or democratically chosen governments? The answer should be obvious if you believe in democracy.

Yoshua Bengio · Jul 9, 2024 · full quote

Affected groups need influence

Proponents say people most affected by AI should help shape its design, deployment, and governance, including workers, women and girls, people with disabilities, patients, and underrepresented regions. Several quotes stress that inclusion means meaningful influence or co-authorship, not simply being consulted after the fact.

Women and girls, feminist technologists, indigenous communities, labor organizations, disability advocates, and civil society must be meaningfully involved and empowered.

Sima Bahous · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
For Germany, a multi-stakeholder approach is a necessity. Industry, academia, and civil society, especially from underrepresented regions, must have a meaningful seat at the table. This approach must also include those who will feel the impact of AI most directly: workers, learne…

Karsten Wildberger · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Artificial intelligence has the potential to be one of the most transformative accessibility tools of our generation. But innovation alone is not enough. As the Government of Canada implements its new AI Strategy, accessibility must be built in by design, not added as an aftertho…

Christopher T. Sutton · Jun 8, 2026 · full quote
The AI Commission puts patients’ voices at the centre, bringing too often unheard perspectives from the margins into the heart of decision-making. This means patient experience directly shapes how these technologies are developed, regulated and used in practice.

Henrietta Hughes · Jun 11, 2026 · full quote
Ultimately, meaningful inclusion in AI governance is measured not by participation alone, but by influence.

Government of Egypt · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
Those furthest from today's centers of power must be co-authors of this future, with a meaningful role in building the infrastructure, shaping the rules, and sharing fairly in the value created.

Halla Tómasdóttir · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote

Participation improves safety

Several speakers treat public participation as a substantive source of evidence for safer and fairer AI, arguing that standards set by a few are neither accountable nor safe. They say deliberation can shape agendas and model behavior, surface failures, and better align systems with societal values and expectations.

First, we need to treat public participation as a source of evidence. Participation does not just mean collecting or representing views, but making sure that those views shape agendas, evidence priorities, and recommendations.

Gaia Marcus · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
A safety standard that is set by a few is not accountable and it is not safe.

Rebecca Finlay · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Public input is critical to ensuring that powerful AI serves humanity’s interests.

Anthropic · Jun 12, 2026 · full quote
By actively involving the public in shaping AI agent behavior, we're [...] ensuring these powerful tools align with societal values.

James S. Fishkin · 2026 · full quote
Second, its very comprehensiveness forecloses democratic contestation by resolving questions about AI values, moral status, and conscientious objection that should remain open for public deliberation. Anthropic's own 2023 experiment in participatory constitution-making found roug…

Gilad Abiri · Apr 3, 2026 · full quote
But the governance of the most powerful systems, as well as decisions regarding their deployment, must have strong public oversight. We believe people around the world should democratically decide on the bounds and defaults for AI systems. Second, we believe it would be unintuit…

Sam Altman · 2023 · full quote

Shared global governance

Because AI is described as critical infrastructure with cross-border effects, many quotes call for multi-stakeholder and multilateral governance that includes governments, civil society, academia, industry, and all countries. On this view, no single sector or a handful of leading developers can legitimately write the rules alone.

AI is advancing at runaway speed. The question is whether we will govern it together – or let it govern us. For the first time, the AI Dialogue gives every country a seat at the table. We must now turn global participation into global action – to make AI safer, fairer, more acces…

António Guterres · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
This is precisely why evidence, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and multilateralism are needed at this very moment.

Roberto Viola · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
We do need an approach that is inclusive, that makes room for every government in the world, as well as multi-stakeholder conversations as were happening right now today. Government cannot act alone. The private sector cannot act alone.

Brad Smith · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
AI governance cannot be written by governments or technology companies alone. Civil society, researchers, and the technical community bring knowledge that we lack. And it's our task to give this multi-stakeholder real seats at the real table.

Billemijn Aerts · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Ethiopia believes that continuous and inclusive dialogue under the United Nations is essential to building trust, shared understanding, and scientific consensus needed for interoperable AI governance.

Government of Ethiopia · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Global governance of AI systems must not hinge on the unilateral decisions of a few companies reflecting the views of specific groups. It is necessary for cross-sector stakeholders to work collaboratively, so the result can be relied upon in total confidence by every member of th…

Audrey Tang · Jun 25, 2024 · full quote

Participation must be real

Some quotes focus on process design, arguing that public deliberation needs real seats at the table, evidence-taking, and visible implementation rather than symbolic consultation. They call for institutions and mechanisms that build policy with communities, prove principles are carried out, and translate input into oversight and standards.

Ultimately, meaningful inclusion in AI governance is measured not by participation alone, but by influence.

Government of Egypt · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
That is why I urge the Senate to make a baseline commitment: AI policy must be built with communities, not merely presented to them after the fact.

Steven Choi · Jan 15, 2026 · full quote
The noble Lord, Lord Holmes, suggested a cross-sector AI Bill. I would go further and establish a cross-party, pre-legislative scrutiny committee of both Houses to take evidence on the proposals in such a Bill. [...] AI calls for the kind of committee that is able to look forward…

Lord McNally · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
The world does not need more AI principles. It needs a common way to prove they're being implemented.

Paula Bragantes Zamora · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
The advisory body should solicit input from a broad set of stakeholders—including industry, academia, labor, Tribes and other affected communities—to ensure recommendations reflect diverse interests and technical realities.

Washington State AI Task Force · Jul 2026 · full quote
The People-First Chatbot Act responds in a forceful way to the concerns many Americans rightly have about this powerful technology as generative AI has moved from novelty to infrastructure over the last four years. The bill's boldness rests on a careful foundation. It is built sq…

Alondra Nelson · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Speakers from governments, industry, academia, civil society, and religious institutions converge on the concern that AI value-setting should not be concentrated in a few private hands.
Several quotes define participation as meaningful influence, co-authorship, or real seats at the table, not just consultation or representation.
Many proponents tie public deliberation to safety and quality, arguing that broader participation can test claims, reveal failures, reduce bias, and build trust.
A recurring distinction within supportive quotes is between domestic democratic processes for citizens and workplaces, and multilateral processes in which every country has a voice.
Multiple authors emphasize specific affected groups—workers, women and girls, people with disabilities, patients, cities, and underrepresented regions—rather than treating the public as a single undifferentiated audience.

In the provided quotes, the debate is less about whether AI alignment raises public questions than about how to organize public, expert, and international participation so it has real effect. Speakers repeatedly reject leaving value choices to developers alone, but they differ on the institutions they emphasize: democratic oversight, multi-stakeholder forums, international bodies, or structured deliberative processes tied to implementation. No developed case for developer-only control appears in the material provided here.

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We must collectively decide how we build a better society in an AI-enabled world. AI must serve us, and not the other way round.
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The Code of Conduct provides a voluntary framework for those organizations to assess and mitigate risks, and also to disclose relevant information on their risk management. So these frameworks are the very ambitious a multi-stakeholder approach for c...
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A lot of times we are developing things without having children involved.
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Meaningful AI governance requires community participation, data sovereignty, diverse expertise, and investment in community-led digital infrastructure.
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Gender and child rights impact assessment must be mandatory, conducted before deployment with affected communities participating, not merely documented.
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In Spain, we'd like to open a discussion, a democratic discussion that is also inclusive, where all of these voices lie, especially voices from Africa.
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Women and girls, feminist technologists, indigenous communities, labor organizations, disability advocates, and civil society must be meaningfully involved and empowered.
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Chad has come to Geneva with a simple conviction, which is that the future of AI must be constructed with all of our participation for all in dignity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.
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This is precisely why evidence, multi-stakeholder dialogue, and multilateralism are needed at this very moment.
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Artificial intelligence is not just a technology, it's critical infrastructure transforming our economies. In democracy, governance requires the participation of all people.
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Two years ago when we adopted the Global Digital Compact, we did so with a commitment to give everyone an equal voice to shape the future of artificial intelligence. Today, we make an important step towards delivering on that promise.
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This dialogue offers a valuable opportunity to shape AI global governance that is inclusive, human-centric, development-oriented, and grounded in international cooperation. Indonesia also reaffirms that human rights, privacy, transparency, accountabi...
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CEDAW tools, including its General Recommendation No. 40, also remind us that women must participate fully and equally in the design, governance, and oversight of AI systems.
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Romania believes that AI race not— should not be settled only by those who train the most capable front models. Romania pleads for an approach that balances opportunity with risk and that keeps the door open for every country to be co-authors of this...
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Yet despite this reality, they remain largely absent from global AI governance deliberations. This matters because AI must respond to the realities cities face today.
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The world does not need more AI principles. It needs a common way to prove they're being implemented.
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A safety standard that is set by a few is not accountable and it is not safe.
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Norms, standards, and interoperability frameworks must be authored by both those already at the summit and those who've just started climbing.
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The third one, participation gap. This is a good example of having louder voices, but we still need louder voices for many communities which are affected by AI.
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From the beginning of our existence, APC's network has recognized that it is crucial for the international system to engage with civil society, public interest technologists, and grassroots communities on the design and conversation around technologi...
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When we have seen success in digital cooperation at the global level, that has been when governments, civil society, the technical community, academia, the private sector, and international organizations have worked together. AI governance should bui...
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We need to ensure that the voices of all society can contribute to the solutions.
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We do need an approach that is inclusive, that makes room for every government in the world, as well as multi-stakeholder conversations as were happening right now today. Government cannot act alone. The private sector cannot act alone.
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Effective governments will require inclusive process. It needs common normative frameworks, and it needs clear focus and priorities.
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Ethiopia believes that continuous and inclusive dialogue under the United Nations is essential to building trust, shared understanding, and scientific consensus needed for interoperable AI governance.
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Local and regional governments should be recognized as a distinct governance actor alongside national governments, industry, academia, and civil society. They should be systematically included in thematic discussions on interoperability and compatibi...
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A human-centric approach focusing on the needs and perspectives of human beings must remain at the heart of AI development and use, ensuring that people and their rights remain central throughout the lifecycle of AI systems. At the same time, AI gove...
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First, we need to treat public participation as a source of evidence. Participation does not just mean collecting or representing views, but making sure that those views shape agendas, evidence priorities, and recommendations.
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AI governance cannot be written by governments or technology companies alone. Civil society, researchers, and the technical community bring knowledge that we lack. And it's our task to give this multi-stakeholder real seats at the real table.
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It means involving all stakeholders—governments, businesses, civil society, the research community—because no one can write these rules alone.
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Those furthest from today's centers of power must be co-authors of this future, with a meaningful role in building the infrastructure, shaping the rules, and sharing fairly in the value created.
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The future of AI must be built on equity, cooperation, and shared prosperity. Mozambique therefore calls for a global AI ecosystem founded on three essential pillars. First, inclusive governance. Global AI rules should reflect the voices and realitie...
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UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific and Minister for Equalities.

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To make a real difference, we must work in diverse partnerships—partnerships between countries, policymakers, researchers, and the private sector. [...] Ultimately, the UN's unique strength lies in its ability to bring countries together and ensure e...
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Zimbabwean Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier Services.

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For the first time, every nation has an equal seat at the table to shape the future of this transformative technology.
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Irish Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation.

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As we come together to meet these collective challenges, we need to ensure that the voices of all society can contribute to the solutions. [...] This dialogue can facilitate much-needed efforts towards shared governance language incorporating transpa...
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For Germany, a multi-stakeholder approach is a necessity. Industry, academia, and civil society, especially from underrepresented regions, must have a meaningful seat at the table. This approach must also include those who will feel the impact of AI ...
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Every country is involved in the AI value chain, whether through data, critical minerals, labour, markets, compute, or cloud capacity. And that means that all should have a meaningful stake in shaping and benefiting from AI. Otherwise, AI will deepen...
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It is absolutely critical to have open dialogue that is inclusive between governments and representatives from different stakeholders.
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Government of Egypt
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Ultimately, meaningful inclusion in AI governance is measured not by participation alone, but by influence.
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Government of Guatemala
National government of Guatemala, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.

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Guatemala will continue to actively participate in the international cooperation fora in order to share experiences, to craft consensus, and to promote AI governance that is even more inclusive, more representative, and human-centered.
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Egriselda López
Permanent Representative of El Salvador to the United Nations and co-chair of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance.

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Our collective success will be defined by every voice, perspective, experience, and contribution that is shaping the path forward for AI.
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Amandeep Singh Gill
UN Under-Secretary-General and head of the Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies

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The Global Digital Compact gave the multilateral system two things it never had before: an independent scientific panel to assess AI's impacts and opportunities, and a global dialogue where every government has a seat at the table. Today, for the fir...
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Annalena Baerbock
President of the UN General Assembly

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This Global Dialogue is not merely about regulating a technology. It is about defining a shared vision in which technological progress goes hand in hand with human dignity, equity, and sustainable development. If governed responsibly and collectively...
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António Guterres
UN Secretary-General

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AI is advancing at runaway speed. The question is whether we will govern it together – or let it govern us. For the first time, the AI Dialogue gives every country a seat at the table. We must now turn global participation into global action – to mak...
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Washington State AI Task Force
Washington state task force established to study AI impacts and recommend governance measures.

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The advisory body should solicit input from a broad set of stakeholders—including industry, academia, labor, Tribes and other affected communities—to ensure recommendations reflect diverse interests and technical realities.
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Nick Brown
Attorney General of Washington

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Washington does not have to choose between embracing innovation and protecting people. The goal has always been to find a balance that ensures that as AI continues to evolve it does so in a way that works for everyone, not just the companies developi...
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Edite Estrela
Portuguese parliamentarian who spoke at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on democratic governance of AI in June 2026.

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The key question is not only what AI can do, but who controls it, under what rules and in whose interests.
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Kristoffer Lindberg
Swedish parliamentarian who addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on AI and democratic control in June 2026.

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And these are not questions that tech companies should answer, but questions that we should answer.
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Nadejda Iordanova
Bulgarian parliamentarian who spoke at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on AI, democracy, and democratic oversight in June 2026.

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That is why inaction is not an option. Innovation must go hand in hand with democratic oversight. Technology must serve citizens, not manipulate them.
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Sergio Gago
Chief Technology Officer at Cloudera who spoke at UN Open Source Week 2026 about accountable, human-centered AI deployment with incident reporting and community voice.

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Researchers, civil society, academia should test those claims, expose failures, localize systems, and ensure that affected communities, big or small, have a meaningful voice on creating them.
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Bernie Sanders
U.S. Senator from Vermont

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The future of AI and the fate of humanity must not be decided behind closed doors in Silicon Valley by billionaires seeking to maximize their power and profit. It must be decided by workers, parents, teachers, artists, scientists, communities and the...
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Sam Altman
CEO at OpenAI

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The technology’s future must be shaped by people, democratic institutions and society as a whole, not just by the companies building the most capable systems
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Anthropic
AI safety research company

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Public input is critical to ensuring that powerful AI serves humanity’s interests.
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Henrietta Hughes
Patient Safety Commissioner and deputy chair of the UK National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare.

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The AI Commission puts patients’ voices at the centre, bringing too often unheard perspectives from the margins into the heart of decision-making. This means patient experience directly shapes how these technologies are developed, regulated and used ...
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Christopher T. Sutton
Accessibility Commissioner at the Canadian Human Rights Commission.

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Artificial intelligence has the potential to be one of the most transformative accessibility tools of our generation. But innovation alone is not enough. As the Government of Canada implements its new AI Strategy, accessibility must be built in by de...
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Government of Canada
Federal government of Canada

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The third is participation: the principle that Canadians should actively shape how AI is used in their lives, their workplaces, and their communities. That means individuals deciding when and how AI belongs in their daily lives. It means workers and ...
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Lord McNally
Liberal Democrat member of the UK House of Lords and former minister; supports cross-party scrutiny of AI regulation.

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The noble Lord, Lord Holmes, suggested a cross-sector AI Bill. I would go further and establish a cross-party, pre-legislative scrutiny committee of both Houses to take evidence on the proposals in such a Bill. [...] AI calls for the kind of committe...
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Lord Holmes of Richmond
Conservative member of the UK House of Lords; advocates cross-sector AI regulation and public engagement.

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Crucially, we need public engagement across this if we are going to enable all the opportunities from AI. [...] We need this for citizens, creatives, consumers, innovators and investors all to be enabled and empowered to say full-throatedly together,...
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Chris Lehane
OpenAI chief global affairs officer

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As AI capabilities continue to advance, we believe effective safety frameworks should continue to be developed through democratic institutions, informed by technical expertise and broad stakeholder input, to promote accountability and public trust.
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Gerrit W. Gong
Latter-day Saint apostle

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Some AI leaders say foundational AI models are general-purpose tools, not arbiters of values. More reason that neither profit-motivated technology companies nor politically-motivated governments can be left to determine society’s AI moral compass. Pu...
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Micah Weinberg
Carnegie California scholar

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This is not a problem with a technical solution. The tools to support large-scale, accessible, evidence-based deliberation already exist. The constraints are political and bureaucratic. Democratic institutions currently lack the capacity, authority, ...
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Pope Leo XIV
Head of the Catholic Church

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We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines — the so-called “alignment” of AI with human values — without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frame...
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Jeffery Marino
Director of the California Office of Data and Innovation.

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Engaged California has proven to be the most dynamic tool for listening to communities at scale. California is home to 33 of the top 50 AI companies worldwide. This topic supports the Administration’s efforts to understand how people feel about this ...
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Nick Maduros
Secretary of the California Government Operations Agency.

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The more Californians are engaged in the democratic process, the better able we’ll be to confront the challenges we face together. Engaged California is about using new avenues and tools to listen to Californians from across the state on issues that ...
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Gavin Newsom
Governor of California

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We’ve got to be clear-eyed about this moment: AI is moving fast, bringing enormous opportunity, but also real risks. Californians deserve a seat at the table as we shape what’s to come. Engaged California is making sure people aren’t just spectators,...
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Katie B. Wilson
Seattle City Councilmember who published a 2026 vision for responsible AI and worker protections.

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We will create infrastructure to elevate worker and community voices on long-term planning and building of AI tools, impacts, and policies.
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Gilad Abiri
Legal scholar on AI governance

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Second, its very comprehensiveness forecloses democratic contestation by resolving questions about AI values, moral status, and conscientious objection that should remain open for public deliberation. Anthropic's own 2023 experiment in participatory ...
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Ben Bartlett

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AI systems should be transparent, include public input, and remain subject to human oversight. When guided by equity and democratic accountability, AI can support fair employment practices, workforce development, and inclusive economic growth while s...
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Alice Siu
Stanford deliberative democracy scholar

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The 2026 Industry-Wide Forum expands our discussion scope and further deepens our understanding of public attitudes towards AI agents. These deliberations will help ensure AI development remains aligned with societal values and expectations.
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Steven Choi
Director of the Artificial Intelligence Community Engagement (AICE) Initiative.

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That is why I urge the Senate to make a baseline commitment: AI policy must be built with communities, not merely presented to them after the fact.
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Baroness Harding of Winscombe
Conservative life peer and business executive in the UK House of Lords

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It is asking, "What do these models currently do?" It is not asking, "What should they do?" I think we need ethicists, philosophers and social scientists to build that social, moral and then legal framework for this technology, which I would be the f...
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Baroness Kidron
UK House of Lords crossbench peer and digital rights advocate

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Advanced AI does not become unsafe in a vacuum; it becomes unsafe by design when it is developed without accountability, driven by profit incentives of private actors and embedded in infrastructure that the state can neither inspect nor exit.
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Rob Sherman
Meta AI policy executive

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Technology better serves people when it's grounded in their feedback and expectations. This Forum reinforces how companies and researchers can collaborate to make sure AI agents are built to be responsive to the diverse needs of people who use them. ...
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Prince Sarpong
Finance professor and AI advisor

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The legitimacy of AI systems must rest not on their utility or performance, but on the collective processes that determine their existence, scope, and direction. What is needed is a model of epistemic democracy, and thus a political framework that ex...
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Nathan Sanders
Data scientist and democracy researcher

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I think lip service is probably the right expression to use here, because, you know, there are really interesting projects happening at some of the big AI development companies, on the one hand, to try and enforce rules on their own in a voluntary wa...
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Chloé Bakalar
AI ethicist and governance researcher

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Everybody needs to be part of the conversation. It shouldn’t simply be one person who has a multi-billion dollar company and gets to dictate that this is what’s right for all people. Especially when we’re talking about global technologies that are op...
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Jack Boeglin
University of Pennsylvania law fellow

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Another comparative advantage of legal alignment is that it can piggyback on the stakeholder involvement that already takes place when formulating legal rules and norms. To be sure, law is far from perfect in this respect; it too often fails to be tr...
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Tanusree Sharma
Penn State information sciences professor

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Current efforts to align AI with human values or governing AI models are largely top-down, controlled by big tech corporations and institutions. Design and improvement decisions may be based on surveying or collecting opinions from users, but these m...
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Pedro Sánchez
Prime Minister of Spain

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The direction of AI is currently determined by a small group of companies [...] We are seeing the construction of an oligarchy that responds solely to its own interests. The governance of artificial intelligence should be in the hands of the people, ...
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Divya Siddarth
Founder and Executive Director of the Collective Intelligence Project; researcher on democratic AI governance and public participation in AI development

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First, we identify key points in the AI development process — from data collection to training to deployment — where decisions are about values, not just technical specs. Public insight is crucial at those stages. This includes the model’s “constitut...
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Yoshua Bengio
AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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But in the future, who should decide where to draw the line and how to weigh the pros and cons? CEOs of companies or democratically chosen governments? The answer should be obvious if you believe in democracy.
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Audrey Tang
Former Taiwan digital affairs minister

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Power to shape a shared vision of AI should not be exclusive to a handful of companies or economies. Collective intelligence processes democratise knowledge and serve as a powerful catalyst for bolstering mutual understanding.
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Michele Gilman
Law professor on democracy and technology

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Public participation is a democratic right. Affected people do not need to know how to build an algorithm to have an opinion on how automated decision-making systems should (or should not) affect their lives. The public and private entities that adop...
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Rayid Ghani
Machine learning and public policy professor

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Because an AI system requires us to define exactly 1) what we want to optimize it for, 2) which mistakes are costlier (financially or socially) than others, and 3) by how much, it forces us to make these ethical and societal values explicit. [...] On...
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Flavio du Pin Calmon
Harvard electrical engineering professor

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I would think that there are certain basic norms that, from a personal perspective, you would expect an AI to satisfy, like avoiding harm, non-discrimination and so on. But while there are some global norms that might be enforced, the question that w...
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James S. Fishkin
Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University; pioneer of Deliberative Polling

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By actively involving the public in shaping AI agent behavior, we're [...] ensuring these powerful tools align with societal values.
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Baobao Zhang
Political scientist studying AI governance

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Key decisions about the future of AI are almost exclusively made behind closed doors by powerful individuals. What if the general public had a say in how AI systems are developed and deployed? [...] The majority of participants want governmental agen...
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Shannon Vallor
Philosopher of AI, Edinburgh

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Just as when Jonas wrote at the height of the Cold War, today the security of the human family hangs on our capacity for wise self-governance and collective political reason in service of shared values. Yet we believe in these things with far less si...
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Kirti Bardhan Singh
India's Minister of State for External Affairs.

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Last year the United Nations General Assembly launched the Global Dialogue on Air Governance, a landmark initiative that gives every country, along with industry, academia, and civil society, a meaningful voice in shaping the future of artificial int...
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Tom Wheeler
Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution; former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2013-2017; author and tech policy expert

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The more immediate and tangible risk is the concentration of AI decisionmaking in a handful of individuals responsible primarily to themselves and their shareholders. [...] When a handful of companies make consequential choices about model behavior, ...
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Gillian Hadfield
Legal scholar and AI governance researcher; Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of AI Alignment and Governance at Johns Hopkins University; Canada CIFAR AI Chair (Vector Institute)

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Legislatures and regulators face significant challenges in rapidly translating conventional command-and-control legal requirements into technical requirements. [...] Overreliance on industry to provide technical standards fails to ensure that the man...
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Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder

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Time is running out. The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want. That means building public will and s...
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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No single person or institution should define how an ideal AI should behave for everyone. To fulfill our mission of ensuring that AGI benefits all of humanity, OpenAI needs to build systems that reflect the wide range of values and priorities of all ...
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