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Frontier AI should be licensed like other critical technologies; medicine, aviation, and nuclear energy, to incentivize safe development.Yoshua BengioSep 23, 2026· Keynote
The race is not a law of nature: it is the product of choices, choices made by the companies themselves.Yoshua BengioSep 23, 2026· Keynote
We must agree collectively that no one, no company and no country, should develop an AI system that could cause large-scale harm.Yoshua BengioSep 23, 2026· Keynote
Even if you believe in a deal with China, and I do not, we (and others) now know competitors can catch up more quickly than we had thought, at least if they think they have a chance of winning.Tyler CowenSep 22, 2026· Post
If the top U.S. labs have to give up on what is supposed to be really important, they will look very “catchable.” The policy creates a big incentive for some other parts of the world to invest a lot more in compute.Tyler CowenSep 22, 2026· Post
AI must not be placed in the hands of children without first being tested, evaluated, and therefore authorized.Emmanuel MacronSep 22, 2026· Statement
We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past and wait twenty years to see the impact of chatbots on minors.Emmanuel MacronSep 22, 2026· Statement
Indeed, that’s probably the overhang that matters most of all: competition. Anthropic is fine with Anthropic being in the lead; anyone else requires government intervention.Ben ThompsonSep 21, 2026· Post
If American businesses keep buying and American voters hate it, this will end up settled in the political arena.Azeem AzharSep 19, 2026· Post
Fixing these bugs and putting in place improved monitoring would be appropriate fixes, not pausing AI.Andrew NgSep 18, 2026· Letter
Pausing AI progress will create much more harm than benefit.Andrew NgSep 18, 2026· Letter
AI will sort the world the same way: those who harness it effectively will gain cultural and economic power, and those who don’t will become subject to forces they do not control.Reid HoffmanSep 16, 2026· Essay
An absolute moratorium on AI development by the well-intentioned shifts technological power toward less accountable hands, giving bad actors and hostile nations, like China, greater influence over systems Americans will increasingly depend on.Reid HoffmanSep 16, 2026· Essay
As AI technology accelerates development and economic precarity increases, the decisions we make in the next 36 months are crucial; we are setting a course that will determine the winners and losers, both domestically and internationally.Reid HoffmanSep 16, 2026· Essay
Remember that ‘they will probably say no’ is not a good argument for not trying, even if you are right that the odds are not so great.Zvi MowshowitzSep 14, 2026· Post
Ultimately, global coordination is The Way. We can and should do things without it, to enable coordination, and to show good faith, and because as things are we would be better off acting unilaterally, including because our Chinese competition is fast following.Zvi MowshowitzSep 14, 2026· Post
I hope they will sign in blood, and put actual teeth in their agreement, and that the government will hold them to it and force it to become something substantive.Gary MarcusSep 13, 2026· Post
We should all salute their tentative agreement to slow down the acceleration of this technology, given that not one of the AI companies seems to have good control over it.Gary MarcusSep 13, 2026· Post
This outcome is not inevitable, and it can be corrected with effective governance and a different training framework for AI.Yoshua BengioSep 11, 2026· Post
Here is the question nobody is asking clearly enough: should a handful of select, market-dominant AI companies from Silicon Valley get to define the rules and safety standards of a generational technology for the entire world?Aidan GomezSeptember 2026· Essay
No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology...Aidan GomezSeptember 2026· Statement
Once again using fear under the pretext of protecting the public, these oligopolies are now requesting to bend competition rules and be permitted to dictate the terms for everyone else.Aidan GomezSeptember 2026· Essay
The problem is that there is a list at all, when the decisions being made reach every company, every government, and every citizen who never got asked.Aidan GomezSeptember 2026· Essay
This is one of many reasons why I think it’s unwise to lock in some kind of regulatory safety regime right now. We simply don’t know what kind of technology we’re going to be looking at even in a year, let alone in five years or ten years, and we’d be entrenching an archaic and potentially counterproductive approach to dealing with the threats from AI.Dwarkesh PatelAug 7, 2026· Essay
Open models lack the central economic champion to represent the potential downside of action against them.Nathan LambertJul 12, 2026· Post
The most serious test to date of open source AI’s viability is happening right now.Nathan LambertJul 12, 2026· Post
The primary driver motivating regulation today is the inevitable truth that an open-weights model will soon reach the capabilities of Claude’s Mythos model.Nathan LambertJul 12, 2026· Post
In the case of AI, the connection of AI to freedom of expression is unshakable and irrefutable.Steven SinofskyJul 11, 2026· Essay
The easiest algorithm I have for this is to ask if some new technology will be used by the government alone before it is approved or neutered for use by everyone else. If that is the case then history tells us the technology is being used for control or even oppression first and foremost.Steven SinofskyJul 11, 2026· Essay
But its broader significance is that it proves beyond doubt that AI models are now tools of global and national strategic consequence.Dario AmodeiJune 2026· Essay
I therefore believe we should model AI regulation on agencies like the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety.Dario AmodeiJune 2026· Essay
I do not think it is right that a few AI labs would make the most consequential decisions about the shape of our future.Sam AltmanApr 10, 2026· Post
It is important that the democratic process remains more powerful than companies.Sam AltmanApr 10, 2026· Post
The only solution I can come up with is to orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring.Sam AltmanApr 10, 2026· Post
As the Trump Administration has now said many times: We totally reject global governance of AI. We believe AI adoption cannot lead to a brighter future if it is subject to bureaucracies and centralized control.Michael KratsiosFebruary 2026· Keynote
Complete technological self-containment is unrealistic for any country, because the AI stack is incredibly complex. But strategic autonomy alongside rapid AI adoption is achievable, and it is a necessity for independent nations.Michael KratsiosFebruary 2026· Keynote
Focusing AI policy on safety and speculative risks, however, rather than concrete opportunities, inhibits a competitive ecosystem, entrenches incumbents, and isolates developing countries from full participation in the AI economy.Michael KratsiosFebruary 2026· Keynote
We have moved from gathering to talk about AI safety to calling for AI action, and now we are here to consider AI impact.Michael KratsiosFebruary 2026· Keynote
If we fail to push the policies of the country in the right direction, America will likely lose its position as the global leader in technology.Ben HorowitzJan 9, 2026· Essay
It makes no sense to sell the CCP the tools with which to build an AI totalitarian state and possibly conquer us militarily.Dario AmodeiJanuary 2026· Essay
Competitor nations may be following American innovations quickly, but they are still only following.Michael KratsiosAugust 2025· Keynote
It believes that the broad overregulation of AI incentivizes centralization and censorship.Michael KratsiosAugust 2025· Keynote
Artificial intelligence is a revolutionary technology with the potential to transform the global economy and alter the balance of power in the world. To remain the leading economic and military power, the United States must win the AI race.David SacksJul 23, 2025· Statement
The challenge is the future doesn’t just wait around for everyone to come to a consensus.Steven SinofskyMay 30, 2025· Essay
My belief is that government’s the only people who are powerful enough to deal with these large companies and even they may not be.Geoffrey HintonMay 15, 2025· Interview
But I think that I’ve now become somewhat disillusioned and think that even if we do have a three-month lead, a six-month lead, between the leading US project and any serious competitor, it’s not at all foregone conclusion that they will burn that lead for good purposes, either for safety or for constitutional power stuff.Daniel KokotajloApr 3, 2025· Interview
I feel like we can’t just unilaterally slow down and have China go take the lead.Daniel KokotajloApr 3, 2025· Interview
Today, you cannot deploy these intelligences unless and until there's someone indemnifying it as a human.Satya NadellaFeb 19, 2025· Interview
And to restrict its development now would not only unfairly benefit incumbents in the space, it would mean paralyzing one of the most promising technologies we have seen in generations.JD VanceFeb 11, 2025· Keynote
And when a massive incumbent comes to us asking us for safety regulations, we ought to ask whether that safety regulation is for the benefit of our people or whether it's for the benefit of the incumbent.JD VanceFeb 11, 2025· Keynote
But to create that kind of trust, we need international regulatory regimes that fosters the creation of AI technology, rather than strangles it. And we need our European friends, in particular, to look to this new frontier with optimism rather than trepidation.JD VanceFeb 11, 2025· Keynote
But despite all the hubbub and competing interests, there actually is a reasonable policy position the United States can take: to focus on marginal risk and apply our regulatory energy there.Martin CasadoDec 16, 2024· Essay
In the end, we might conclude the best policy for human welfare is to invest aggressively in AI rather than to encumber it.Martin CasadoDec 16, 2024· Essay
We should only depart from the existing regulatory regime, and carve new ground, once we understand the marginal risks of AI relative to existing computer systems.Martin CasadoDec 16, 2024· Essay
And so there are many countries – we like to call these “geopolitical swing states” – which could go either way.Alexandr WangDec 12, 2024· Interview
But I think this is going to be one of the under-the-line battles that really defines the course of the next few decades of geopolitics.Alexandr WangDec 12, 2024· Interview
So my expectation is that they will actually deploy AI to their military faster than the U.S., even though the U.S. is ahead on the tech, core technology.Alexandr WangDec 12, 2024· Interview
You should not export data to import intelligence...Jensen HuangOct 24, 2024· Keynote
The country that wins this AI race and related races like fusion will project so much economic power, hence will project political power and likely anoint the world's political system.Vinod KhoslaSep 20, 2024· Essay
Our adversaries are great at espionage, stealing models that fit on a thumb drive is relatively easy, and most tech companies are far from operating in a way that would make this more difficult.Mark ZuckerbergJul 23, 2024· Essay
Regulatory agencies are being green lit in real time to do the same to Artificial Intelligence.Marc AndreessenJul 5, 2024· Essay
By the early 2030s, the entirety of the US arsenal (like it or not, the bedrock of global peace and security) will probably be obsolete.Leopold AschenbrennerJun 4, 2024· Essay
Do we really want the infrastructure for the Manhattan Project to be controlled by some capricious Middle Eastern dictatorship?Leopold AschenbrennerJun 4, 2024· Essay
Ultimately, my main claim here is descriptive: whether we like it or not, superintelligence won’t look like an SF startup, and in some way will be primarily in the domain of national security.Leopold AschenbrennerJun 4, 2024· Essay
Given the relatively small number of entities who could train the largest models, it does seem possible to coordinate.John SchulmanMay 15, 2024· Interview
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to uplift all of humanity to an unprecedented quality of living and must not be choked off in its infancy. We can do this by requiring that AI behaves within the law and rules of our society without regulating math, FLOPs, methods of R&D, and other misguided ideas.Ben HorowitzDec 14, 2023· Essay
However our regulatory regime and processes are built based on a model of crude industrial revolution era technologies. As a result, we risk harming far more people than we save with our “safety” measures.Ben HorowitzDec 14, 2023· Essay
And in any case, how can we write laws that make sense for something we don’t yet fully understand?Rishi SunakOct 26, 2023· Keynote
So, we should not rely on them marking their own homework, as many of those working on this would agree. Not least because only governments can properly assess the risks to national security. And only nation states have the power and legitimacy to keep their people safe.Rishi SunakOct 26, 2023· Keynote
We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.Marc AndreessenOct 16, 2023· Essay
AI is highly likely to be the control layer for everything in the world.Marc AndreessenJun 6, 2023· Essay

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