YouCongress Polls

We need a glass box approach instead of a black box, where safety rules can be viewed and verified. Accountability will become clearer, and ethical behaviour in business will also be encouraged. Unverified source (2026)

[...] principles requiring that AI be explicable are misguided. We should be deciding which decisions require explanations. Automation is still an option; Unverified source (2019)

No society should build machines that can meet a child in their loneliest moment and offer them harm as if it were help. [...] Social media broadcasts to billions, AI whispers to one. Unverified source (2026)

Although age restrictions on chatbots designed for erotic or intimate interactions likely meet the “obscene for children” standard from Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, we oppose wide-ranging age restrictions, as they could hinder both children and a... more Unverified source (2025)

As long as the European Union remains dependent on a handful of US tech companies, its ambitions to become a global leader in AI will remain out of reach. [...] In today's geopolitical landscape, strategic autonomy is defined by ownership and control... more Unverified source (2026)

trying to decouple wholesale from US cloud risks hurting European competitiveness more than it helps sovereignty. Unverified source (2025)

Big Tech and their allies in the administration are desperate to stop states from regulating AI, even as it ravages families, eliminates jobs, and threatens to replace humans wholesale. Any legislative framework that includes federal preemption witho... more Unverified source (2026)

The United States cannot remain competitive if developers, businesses, and users face fifty different legal regimes governing a general-purpose technology. [...] Congress should take this recommendation seriously and establish a light-touch national ... more Unverified source (2026)

We are moving from AI-as-tool, where a human uses a machine to support their own analysis or recommendations, to AI-as-agent, where the machine initiates, decides, and executes, potentially without human involvement. A fiduciary gap emerges in a worl... more Unverified source (2026)

With agentic AI, experienced auditors would be supported by autonomous agents, allowing them to dedicate more attention to complex and judgment-oriented procedures. Unverified source (2025)

We're redefining what it means to be an insurance agent — with fully autonomous AI agents that will eliminate human error, offer superior client interactions 24/7, and fundamentally alter industry expectations. Unverified source (2025)

The final stage of the judicial process, pronouncement of judgments, must remain firmly in human hands. Unverified source (2026)

A "human in the loop" whose sole function is to approve a machine's actions is not a safeguard but a design failure. [...] In high-stakes environments, the illusion of human oversight is worse than no oversight at all. It creates confidence without c... more Unverified source (2026)

We support innovation but that doesn't give any company the right to endanger our children, facilitate criminal activity, empower America's enemies or threaten our national security. Unverified source (2026)

This [...] legislation could [...] subjecting [...] to lawsuits [...]. The bill is overly broad [...] subject to litigation. [...] could subject online services to costly [...] lawsuits. Unverified source (2023)

Policymakers could rebalance the tax base by increasing reliance on capital-based revenues—such as higher taxes on capital gains at the top, corporate income, or targeted measures on sustained AI-driven returns—and by exploring new approaches such as... more Unverified source (2026)

Capitalism has also depended on somewhat of a power balance between labor and capital, but if it's hard in many of our current jobs to outwork a GPU, then that changes. [...] If there was an easy consensus answer, we'd have done it by now, so I don't... more Unverified source (2026)

Why pick on robots? [...] I don't think simply trying to resist or stop technology is a viable strategy. I don't think it would be a viable strategy if it was adoptable on a global basis, but it's even less viable for a single country in internationa... more Unverified source (2017)

Auditors, internal risk teams, and independent researchers must be able to speak candidly about risks without fear of retaliation or frivolous lawsuits. Unverified source (2026)

Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, ... more Unverified source (2026)

It causes a lot of cases to get solved. It’s another tool we’re now not going to have. That facial recognition can potentially solve homicides, [...] Unverified source (2026)

The government views the practice of non-consensual sexual deepfakes as a serious violation of human rights, dignity, and the security of citizens in the digital space. Unverified source (2026)

Without provisions that allow for fair use and free expression online, this legislation would dramatically change the internet. Unverified source (2024)

As we're building potentially a new kind of mind, let's notice the following facts: Humans are pretty bad at understanding minds that are different from us, we're bad at caring about them — and we're especially bad at doing that when there's a lot of... more Unverified source (2026)

We will soon create AI systems that are conscious according to some influential, mainstream theories of consciousness but are not conscious according to other influential, mainstream theories of consciousness. We will not be in a position to know whi... more Unverified source (2026)

We need the whole spectrum or we have no mind [...] Computers can imitate important aspects of thinking-about (narrowly understood), but being is beyond them. Unverified source (2015)

This industry-wide deliberative forum represents a crucial step in democratizing the discourse around AI agents, ensuring that the public's voice is heard in a representative and thoughtful way as we collectively shape the future of this transformati... more Unverified source (2026)

Increasingly complex AI cases require juries of experts and professional peers rather than a random selection of citizens. Unverified source (2023)

It is in the rational interest of various countries to make sure we end up with an international agreement. Unverified source (2026)

With nuclear weapons, [...] they can't [...] in secret, but with developing new types of AI, it's much easier [...] So it's not enough to have an agreement. Unverified source (2018)

That branch of AI is lethal. We've got to do something about that. Nobody should build it. And everyone needs to agree to that by treaty. Treaties are not perfect, but they are the best we have as humans. Unverified source (2026)

The idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it, others will do so nearly as fast. [...] Even if all Western companies stopped their work on AI, authoritarian countries wo... more Unverified source (2026)