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  Pope Francis

  Leader of the Catholic Church

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  the voices of all stakeholders should be taken into account [...] It is not the responsibility of a few but of the entire human family. Unverified source (2024)

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  Rishi Sunak

  Former UK prime minister

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  AI does not respect borders. [...] the risk that humanity could lose control of AI through the kind of AI sometimes referred to as 'super intelligence'. Unverified source (2023)

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  UNESCO

  UN agency for education, science, culture

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  should be ensured throughout the life cycle of AI systems [...] by promoting active participation of all individuals or groups. Unverified source (2021)

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  Brad Smith

  Microsoft vice chair and president

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  It is a race that no company or country can win by itself. Unverified source (2025)

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  I worry about it. Sometimes, I think we’re going to wind up building better AI at some point no matter what I say and that we should prepare for what we’re going to do about it. I think that the concerns with over-empowered, mediocre AI are pretty se... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Greg Brockman

  OpenAI cofounder; former president

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  One gap in our current structure that we do want to fill is representative governance. We don’t think that AGI should be just a Silicon Valley thing. We’re talking about world-altering technology. And so, how do you get the right representation and g... more Unverified source (2019)

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  Toby Ord

  Oxford philosopher; The Precipice author

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  I think that a useful bird’s eye view of it all is actually helpful. […] It’s something broadly like our intelligence that put us in this unique position. We’re talking about creating something that knocks us out of that position. So, we lose what wa... more Unverified source (2020)

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  Well, there’s been lots of talk about AI disrupting the job market and also enabling new weapons, but very few scientists talk seriously about what I think is the elephant in the room. What will happen, once machines outsmart us at all tasks? What’s ... more Unverified source (2017)

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  Jerome C. Glenn

  Millennium Project founder

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  AI is advancing so rapidly that some experts believe AGI could emerge before the end of this decade, hence it is time to begin serious deliberations about it. National governments and multilateral organizations like the European Union, OECD and UNESC... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Mustafa Suleyman

  Microsoft AI CEO; author

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  Are we committed to holding on to our place at the top of the evolutionary pyramid, or will we allow the emergence of AI systems that are smarter and more capable than we can ever be? The coming wave of technologies threatens to fail faster and on a... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Ian Hogarth

  UK AI Safety Institute chair

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  Most experts view the arrival of AGI as a historical and technological turning point, akin to the splitting of the atom or the invention of the printing press. [...] What is certain is that creating AGI is the explicit aim of the leading AI companies... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Nick Bostrom

  Philosopher; 'Superintelligence' author; FHI founder

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  Yudkowsky has proposed that a seed AI be given the final goal of carrying out humanity’s “coherent extrapolated volition” (CEV) [...] Yudkowsky sees CEV as a way for the programmers to avoid arrogating to themselves the privilege or burden of determi... more Unverified source (2014)

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  Yuval Noah Harari

  Israeli historian and professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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  AI, however, is fundamentally different: It is an agent; it can write its own books and decide which ideas to disseminate. It can even create entirely new ideas on its own, something that has never been done before in history. We humans have never fa... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Rumman Chowdhury

  AI ethicist and Humane Intelligence CEO

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  My priorities are making sure that everyone’s voice is heard in how these AI models are built. Unverified source

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  Stuart J. Russell

  AI Expert and Professor

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  It seems that everyone. Should be involved in decisions. About whether and how this happens. Unverified source (2025)

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  Shannon Vallor

  Philosopher of AI, Edinburgh

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  In modern democracies, free peoples may not justifiably be subjected to social and political powers [...] over which they have no say. Unverified source (2023)

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  Karen Hao

  Technology journalist and author

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  the answer of who should be leading these discussions is everyone. Unverified source

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  Joy Buolamwini

  Algorithmic Justice League founder

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  work with marginalized communities during the design, development, deployment but also governance of these systems Unverified source (2019)

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  António Guterres

  UN Secretary-General

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  We are working with governments, industry and civil society to ensure that AI becomes a tool of opportunity, inclusion and progress for all people. Unverified source (2025)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  the governance of superhuman AI should be made by a broad and representative group of stakeholders Unverified source (2023)

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  Fei-Fei Li

  Stanford AI professor; HAI co-director

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  If AI is going to change the world, we need everyone from all walks of life to have a role in shaping this change. Unverified source (2025)

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  Barack Obama

  44th U.S. president

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  And if we are going to successfully manage this transition, we are going to have to have a societal conversation about how we manage this. Unverified source (2016)

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  Eva Maydell

  Member of European Parliament

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  Second, we need to work with others. The EU now has an AI office to govern the most powerful AI models. The US and the UK have established equivalent structures and many more will follow suit. It is imperative to connect these initiatives into a stra... more Unverified source (2024)

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  OpenAI

  AI research organization

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  We aim to develop mechanisms that empower human stakeholders to express their intent clearly and supervise AI systems effectively - even in complex situations, and as AI capabilities scale beyond human capabilities. Decisions about how AI behaves and... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Ben Shneiderman

  Computer scientist, HCI pioneer

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  I see AI systems improving nearly every industry and area of our lives when used properly. Humans must be kept in the loop with regard to decisions involving people’s lives, quality of life, health and reputation, and humans must be ultimately respon... more Unverified source (2021)

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  OpenAI, Inc.

  OpenAI’s nonprofit organization

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  AI will have significant, far-reaching economic and societal impacts. Technology shapes the lives of individuals, how we interact with one another, and how society as a whole evolves. We believe that decisions about how AI behaves should be shaped by... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Elon Musk

  Founder of SpaceX, cofounder of Tesla, SolarCity & PayPal

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  The least bad solution to the AGI control problem that I can think of is to give every verified human a vote. Unverified source

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  People need to have agency, the ability to influence this. They need, we need to sort of jointly be architects of the future. Unverified source

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  Yann LeCun

  Computer scientist, AI researcher

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  Human feedback for open source LLMs needs to be crowd-sourced, Wikipedia style.
It is the only way for LLMs to become the repository of all human knowledge and cultures. Unverified source

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  Max Roser

  OurWorldInData founder & Oxford professor

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  How AI gets built is currently decided by a small group of technologists. As this technology is transforming our lives, it should be in all of our interest to become informed and engaged. Unverified source

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  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  AI researcher and writer

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  The key issue is not “human-competitive” intelligence (as the open letter puts it); it’s what happens after AI gets to smarter-than-human intelligence. Key thresholds there may not be obvious, we definitely can’t calculate in advance what happens whe... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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  Maybe. I mean, maybe we have to evolve to something else that's better, I don’t know. Like, there's some problems with democracy too. It's not a panacea by any means. I think it was Churchill who said that it's the least-worst form of government, som... more Unverified source (2025)

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