YouCongress - Expert and Citizen Preferences

The national AI policy focuses on the creation of explainable AI systems that deliver clear, interpretable outputs. This is important for trust and acceptance by users, especially in high-risk applications such as credit scoring. By making decisions ...

We have a very natural instinct to say: we want as much interpretability as possible. One of the sci-fi worry cases is that agents start speaking in languages to each other that we don't understand. [...] I bet there are ways to define boundaries tha...

[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option;

That assumption is unrealistic in the world of AI-driven automation and open-source agent ecosystems.

Restricting access to a dual-use AI model is precautionary only if it delays harmful actors more than defenders. That condition varies across actors: a state agency or organized criminal group may obtain a substitute through theft, distillation, inte...

One of the ways to achieve both individual empowerment and checks and balances is to make sure you put the technology in everybody's hands. I’m personally more worried about centralization than I am about any of the specific risks others are talking ...

When we integrate AI capabilities into our platform, we use API endpoints and vendors that do not feed your data back into model training. Opt-in vs. opt-out matters more than you think. Even with opt-in as our policy, we’re not rushing to flip the s...

Restricting access to training data, whether through mandatory compensation, expanded opt-out rights, or onerous compliance requirements, can have the effect of restricting AI development itself.

As the U.S. and China currently lead the world in AI capabilities by a substantial margin, this draft is framed as a bilateral agreement between the two countries, to be later joined by other nations. Authority to modify the Agreement and perform ind...

A one-size-fits-all approach to AI governance will not be effective. We all face different risks, priorities, levels of digital development, and regulatory environments. Effective governance requires shared principles that can be implemented flexibly...

Funding should be allocated for open-source maintainers, and frontier AI developers should be required to give them access to their models for security work.

AI-related human existential risk arises not only when AI threatens the biological survival of humanity, but also when AI irreversibly weakens the civilizational conditions under which humanity can continue to exist as a subject of truth, responsibil...

Much has been said about whether AI poses an ultimate existential threat to humanity. The more immediate existential challenge may be whether technologies that simulate relationships weaken our capacity for the relationships that foster our own human...

The real challenge isn’t stopping an AI apocalypse — it’s crafting smart, sector-specific policies that keep technology aligned with human values. To avoid being a victim of AI, humans can, and should, put up focused guardrails.

Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.

Young people are increasingly worried about the implication of AI on their job opportunities. These instances emphasize the urgency of broader discussion on how to build a social consensus around those challenges at a speed commensurate with the spee...

This is more than a learning curve. It’s a structural challenge for individuals, employers and entire industries — one that risks widening inequalities if left unaddressed.

The tax base would erode only if labor’s share of income fell dramatically and persistently over many years. That scenario is highly unlikely because workers displaced by AI are unlikely to permanently disappear from the labor market. Instead, most w...

Assuming capabilities continue to accelerate, one responsible course may be for frontier developers to stop, investigate, and let alignment research and governance catch up.

Because the point of AI safety is not to slow the future down. It is to make sure the future remains human, aligned with our values, and advancing our interests.

The federal government must not grant tech giants a blank check to deploy these technologies without the oversight of states.

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.

Demand kill switches on US data centres. This is much more late-stage, after the world has truly woken up to the strategic implications of AGI.

If you’re relying on a ‘kill switch’ to stop an AI agent, you’ve already made a fundamental mistake. A properly governed agent is simply never handed the task, so there is nothing to kill.

That is why post-deployment monitoring, logging, independent auditing and incident reporting should be legal obligations.

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...

I appreciate the intent behind the amendments and the shadow Minister’s position of understanding but not supporting them, which I share.

A fully automated cut-to-interview pipeline, with no documented human review, is a much harder position to defend if outcomes are scrutinized.

Agentic AI requires a different model, one where leadership defines direction, systems enforce boundaries, and accountability is explicit.

Our bill forces the government to obey the Fourth Amendment in the digital age. No more warrantless searches of your phone, cloud data, bank records, or internet history. No more hiding behind the ‘third-party doctrine.’ No more creepy warrantless fa...

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...

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...

The dialogue was established as a UN platform involving governments and all relevant stakeholders to support international cooperation and to share lessons learned and to discuss how AI can contribute to sustainable development and actually help clos...