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Reconsider is a tool for creators to pair an article or video with before-and-after voting on YouCongress policy proposals or claims, to see how their audience's views change.

Refining how I describe YouCongress: A platform to improve democracy, starting with AI safety, governance, and jobs. AI agents gather sourced statements. People vote and delegate to those they trust. Creators get audience insights. The goal: better public debate and new trusted voices. Thoughts?

Is AI safety a corporate plot? Scott Alexander's new essay pushes back. I've set up a YouCongress Reconsider page for it: tell us what you think about AI existential risk before reading, then again after. Let's see whether the essay actually changes minds. youcongress.org/@hector/r/ac...

AI slow down update & YouCongress Reconsider youcongress.substack.com/p/well-then-...

Our YouConress entry won a $5,000 award from the Future of Life Foundation! The judges highlighted our participation layer as "a crucial part of the epistemic design space to explore in." Why participation matters and what we're trying to build: youcongress.substack.com/p/our-youcon...

I asked Claude Opus 5.5: "Create a motion graphics ad for YouCongress Reconsider [url]" This is what it made. 👇

On Wednesday, 21 October, @pauloalvespereira.bsky.social will be speaking at Elixir Madrid: Beyond Autocomplete: Building Elixir Apps with Tidewave and AI Agents www.meetup.com/madrid-elixi...

Looking for beta testers for YouCongress Reconsider: a tool to pair your article or video with before-and-after voting to see how your audience's views change. youcongress.org/reconsider

New sourced quotes from Bengio, Trump, Gates, and others from the past 7 days youcongress.substack.com/p/superintel...

Yay, the Rocket Validator MCP Server works with ChatGPT/Codex, OpenCode and Claude rocketvalidator.com/docs/mcp#con... #accessibility #mcp #ai

More countries should join Canada & Germany in funding LawZero and forming Bengio's "coalition of countries jointly committing to develop advanced AI safely, never use it to dominate other countries economically/politically/militarily, and share the benefits broadly." 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

Should AI labs give independent evaluators employee-like access? New topic on YouCongress with sourced quotes from Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and others: youcongress.org/p/ai-labs-in...

Thinking about trying a small experiment: YouCongress AI & Us Online discussions about how we can thrive as AI becomes more capable, individually and collectively. Topics like how we should prepare, which skills will matter, and how governments should respond. Interested?

YouCongress step by step: 1. What's new in AI governance, safety & jobs 2. Open dataset (CC BY 4.0) 3. Later: user participation

Arrancamos temporada de Elixir Madrid el 23 de sept. con Pepe Marquez hablando de cómo conectar sensores en Nerves y mandarle instrucciones con IA y Telegram. www.meetup.com/madrid-elixi...

Should we adopt AI 2040 Plan A? See who agrees, who disagrees and why: 100+ sourced positions, including Scott Alexander, @vitalik.ca and @ramez.bsky.social. youcongress.org/p/ai-2040-pl...

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Hey that's great! I already signed up, and I'm testing it! Is it always on, or only when I tell it to start a practice session?

Would you like ChatGPT or Claude to remember your English mistakes and generate personalized exercises? I few months ago I built an app for me. Now you can use it too: unspanglish.com

"Compared to nukes, tech shutdowns are amazing. Thanks to Big Tech, America – and only America – can brick almost any country on earth, shutting down its administration, agriculture and industry without firing a single shot."

I found that South Korea is already using sortition (random selection of citizens) to evaluate AI models youcongress.org/p/use-sortit...

When you click on AI synthesis on a YouCongress policy proposal or claim, we now show the key insights at the top.

Toni Segarra used to say that you have to communicate one thing. People can find more about your brand later. So I simplified the home of YouCongress.org. Now it helps you discover what's latest in AI governance from experts, policy makers and public figures. Everything else we do can wait.

One star left for @notes.club to reach 100 stars on GitHub. If you find it useful, give it a ⭐ github.com/notesclub/no...

Here, see how Hec made Claude fix hundreds of A11Y and HTML issues on Youcongress by using the @rocketvalidator.com MCP server

Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/

Claude + the @rocketvalidator.com MCP server saves so much time. One prompt: "Create a new Rocket Validator report and fix all HTML and accessibility errors." 13 minutes later, youcongress.org went from 96 HTML errors and 192 a11y issues across 100 pages to 0.

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Cookie banners or one privacy setting in your browser? The European Commission proposed the second. Add your vote on YouCongress (200+ quotes on this): youcongress.org/p/replace-co...

YouCongress dataset can now be downloaded as CSV (CC BY 4.0 license) networksocieties.com/p/youcongres...

This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Who gets to count as an expert? networksocieties.com/p/who-gets-t...

The full YouCongress dataset can be downloaded now (License CC BY 4.0): youcongress.org/dataset

Preliminary Report from the UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI www.un.org/independent-...

Hypothetical scenario of how an intelligence explosion could go well ai-2040.com

Should AI agents be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations? youcongress.org/p/ai-legal-p...

ChatGPT now cites Livebook notebooks from notes.club for Elixir questions. Nice surprise for my old side project! #ElixirLang

New on YouCongress: filter any vote by country, direct vs delegated and source: sourced quotes, email-verified, or phone-verified users.

Looking for people to help release the first dataset organizing quotes for and against AI policy proposals. Curate, verify or adopt a figure (e.g. Pope Leo or @yoshuabengio.bsky.social) and make sure their views are accurate on YouCongress.org networksocieties.com/p/help-build...

Próxima charla en el meetup de Elixir Madrid: El camino de Elixir hacia el tipado estático gradual por José Luis Esteban Aparicio www.meetup.com/madrid-elixi...

Yoshua Bengio, one of the most-cited living scientists, proposes how the EU, UK, Canada and Australia could create safe frontier AI and how we could commit to share the benefits globally and not to dominate other countries economically, politically or militarily. 80000hours.org/podcast/epis...

Enjoying ElixirConf EU in Málaga with part of the Doofinder team