Right now, a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires control the fate of our futures, making decisions about AI development and deployment without our input or our consent. That's why we're launching Who Decides: to take back control of how this technology is governed, and to build a unified front on AI. This is the defining issue of our future, and we need to act now. Join us to make a difference at whodecides.org

Last night, a handful of billionaire CEOs were guests of honor at Trump’s lavish state dinner at the White House. And we expect him to hold them accountable? This is exactly why we started Who Decides — these people should not be deciding our futures without input from the American people. We need to be at the table.

It was great to talk with @ChrisLHayes about the serious AI security breaches this summer, and how we need to respond. The fact that OpenAI didn’t even know that its AI agents were responsible for the Hugging Face hack shows the massive lack of oversight within the industry.

.@profgalloway: "If you threaten the IPO—like criminal or civil action against these individuals—they're going to figure out a way to reduce the risk here." Your thoughts?" @AlexBores: "I agree that the incentive, the liability is not there right now. You have to guide them. And the same way we do with pharma or with airplanes, or you set real federal standards and federal regulators or with banks where we have auditors sitting right next to employees."

By Election Day in 2028, our goal is that AI safety is a unifying issue in the Democratic Party, rather than a dividing one. That’s why we’re working to identify Americans’ priorities around AI at @WhoDecidesAI, and ensure those priorities make it into candidate questionnaires, forums, and governing agendas.

Just finished up a week of productive conversations around the future of AI at the UN. Common themes: the threats we face are real, urgent, and solvable - but only if we work together and governments take action.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman presents a frightening future if we don’t rein in AI development. All the major AI companies are saying the same thing, but they’re the ones who got us into this mess. So how can we trust them to get us out of it? We need to listen to the American people: they’re calling on our government to address this issue urgently and ensure that AI doesn’t escape human control.

At the A-I Policy Forum’s Politics of AI event, I spoke about the challenges of passing the RAISE Act here in New York. The opposition used scare tactics and blatant lies to try to block this legislation, and we’ve seen that exact same playbook against regulation in other states. The AI industry will always try to split our coalition. That’s why @WhoDecidesAI focuses on bringing people together around a unified baseline for AI safety.

Protecting kids from AI safety risks is not a political issue. Thanks for having me on, @KaraSwisher.

1. Members of Congress should not just be asking AI companies to “do the right thing” — because we know they won’t. 2. When leaders say “we can’t do anything about AI,” we don’t have to believe them. We know legislation is possible, because our cofounder @AlexBores passed one of the strongest AI safety bills in the country. We’re going to bring people together around the nation and build a movement that politicians have to answer to.

The RAISE Act is just the beginning — Americans are demanding more oversight and regulation of AI. We know the AI industry will try to make this law the ceiling of what’s possible. We also know that right now, politicians in Washington are trying to stop states from ever regulating AI again. That’s why @WhoDecidesAI is bringing people together to build a shared baseline on AI safety, and make sure candidates and officials answer to it.

If every AI company is telling us that AI is a risk to humanity, then we need to take them seriously. But at the same time, we can’t let the same CEOs giving these warnings be the sole arbiters of what comes next. Congress needs to act. apnews.com/article/ai-artifi…

@WhoDecidesAI polled Americans about AI safety risks because we can’t let the industry tell us what the problems are, and give us their own solutions. We need independent oversight and regulation, and we need leaders who will listen to voters’ concerns.

@FLI_org’s Pro-Human Assembly brought together leaders from across the political spectrum and Americans from all walks of life under one shared goal: to rein in AI before it’s too late. People feel like AI is happening to them, not with them or for them. It’s time to change that and give everyone a voice in what happens next.

🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for. That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations. So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."

When you build strong coalitions of people—real people—concerned about AI risks and who want a say, we can stand up to lobbyists and powerful interests. And that's what we managed to do with the RAISE Act in New York. @WhoDecidesAI is ready to take on those same fights, because the American people want a say in the future of AI.

Our opponents—a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires—are already highly organized, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to lobby state governments and the White House, form PACs like Leading the Future, gather voter data, and circulate candidate questionnaires before races begin. We can’t let them proceed unchecked. Democrats must organize the public's concern while the questions are still open, and enter 2028 on the front foot. At @FLI_org’s Pro-Human Assembly, we announced @WhoDecidesAI — a new organization in partnership with so many other leaders who are concerned about the rapid advances in AI and want lawmakers to act to bring people into the fold. If you want to join the movement, sign up at whodecides.org.

AI companies are betting that the issue of AI regulation is too complicated for everyday Americans to be allowed to have a say in. But AI raises much bigger questions about our values and our society. @WhoDecidesAI's poll showed that a majority of people are feeling the impacts of AI and want a say — but don’t feel they currently have a voice. That’s why we need to build a baseline on AI safety that our leaders have to listen to and answer to.