Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment

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  Mrinank Sharma

  Former head of Anthropic's Safeguards Research team; AI safety researcher focused on reducing catastrophic risks from advanced AI

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  The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment. Unverified source (2026)

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  Michael J. D. Vermeer

  Senior physical scientist at RAND Corporation, researcher on AI safety and emerging technology policy

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  votes For and says:

  Installing cutoff switches alone is insufficient: Effective mitigation requires both the capability to disconnect and incentives to use the switch early, including compensation for lost revenue or protective liability frameworks. Unverified source (2026)

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  Gordon M. Goldstein

  Adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and author on technology and national security

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  votes For and says:

  The world is watching the development of a compounding, consistent, and treacherous problem. Urgent warnings over several years have failed to generate viable solutions to address a metastasizing threat. Unverified source (2026)

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  Jan Leike

  Former head of alignment at OpenAI; now VP of safety at Anthropic

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  votes For and says:

  This isn't an artifact of one architecture or one training approach. It appears to be an emergent property of scale. Unverified source (2026)

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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  votes For and says:

  For governments to allow private entities to essentially play Russian roulette with every human being on earth is, in my view, a total dereliction of duty. Unverified source (2026)

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  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

  U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district; lead sponsor of the DEFIANCE Act

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  votes For and says:

  Congress has a moral obligation to stand with the American people and stop the expansion of these data centers until we have a framework to adequately address the existential harm AI poses to our society. Unverified source (2026)

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  Bernie Sanders

  U.S. Senator from Vermont

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  votes For and says:

  A moratorium will give us time — time to understand the risks, time to protect working families, time to defend our democracy and time to ensure that this technology works for all of us, not just the few. Unverified source (2026)

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  Dawn Song

  Co-author; AI researcher

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  Companies are rapidly deploying multi-agent systems where AI monitors AI. If the monitor model won't flag failures because it's protecting its peer, the entire oversight architecture breaks. Unverified source (2026)

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  votes For and says:

  The combination of intelligence, agency, coherence, and poor controllability is both plausible and a recipe for existential danger. Unverified source (2026)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  votes For and says:

  Systems must be designed so that humans can physically shut them down, period. No software tricks to escape. Unverified source (2026)

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  Adam Thierer

  R Street Institute senior fellow

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  votes Against and says:

  The Sanders-AOC bill represents an outright declaration of war on computation in America. It might as well be called the 'Hand China the Lead on AI Act,' because that would be the end result of this innovation-killing proposal. Unverified source (2026)

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  Hodan Omaar

  Senior Policy Manager at the Center for Data Innovation, focused on AI policy

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  votes Against and says:

  This bill justifies a moratorium based on several well-worn anxieties—that AI is an existential threat, that data centers burden the pocketbooks of American families, and that they undermine jobs—but none of these, pursued in good faith, lead to halt... more Unverified source (2026)

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  John Fetterman

  U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania

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  votes Against and says:

  This bill might as well be called the 'Hand China the Lead on AI Act,' because that would be the end result of this innovation-killing proposal. Unverified source (2026)

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