Where public figures stand on AI Regulation & Safety
10 people have a position on record here, ordered from the most liberal to the most conservative overall rating. The position is an editorial reading; the statements it rests on are on each profile.
Co-founder & CEO, Anthropic
Transparency requirements now — and pace the frontier
Opposed the state-regulation moratorium, proposed federal transparency standards, and backed the 2026 pacing petition: regulation as safety engineering, not obstruction.
observed 2025-06-05 – 2026-07-28
CEO, Google DeepMind; Nobel laureate
Smart regulation not bans
Favours enabling frameworks over restrictions that drive research abroad.
observed 2025-12-01 – 2025-12-01
Leader, Team Mirai
Guardrails through state capability, not prohibition — the government should be able to test the model itself.
Anno's regulatory answer is institutional muscle rather than bans: an AI Safety Institute with in-house technical capacity to evaluate individual frontier models, security clearances for the officials who handle pre-release information so foreign developers will actually share it, and government-hosted high-capability models for security work. He pairs that with the insistence that ministers use the tools personally to feel the risks, rather than legislating about a technology they have never touched.
observed 2026-05-19 – 2026-05-20
CEO, OpenAI
Wants powerful AI overseen — on terms that keep OpenAI moving
Has warned about superhuman AI since 2015 and proposed government licensing in 2023; in 2026 he backs voluntary "pacing" of frontier AI while seeking rapid federal approval for OpenAI's newest model.
observed 2015-02-25 – 2026-07-28
Co-founder and CEO, Tencent
Invest heavily but integrate into Tencent products
Ma bets on Hunyuan/Yuanbao inside WeChat's ecosystem rather than open-source disruption.
observed 2025-01-26 – 2026-01-26
CEO, SpaceX / Tesla / xAI
Supports preemptive AI regulation
Has framed AI as an existential risk to humanity and consistently called for public regulation and oversight since at least 2014 — while also running a large-scale AI company (xAI) himself.
observed 2014-10-24 – 2023-07-12
Leader of the Reform Party; National Assembly member for Hwaseong B
Minimal regulation; private investment over state mega-budgets
Talent-centered deregulation; mocks 100–200 trillion won pledges as misunderstanding the industry.
observed 2025-03-18 – 2025-04-16
Co-founder, Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto Czar
Rip up the AI rulebook: safety fears are hysteria and the doomers' agenda is regulatory capture.
Sacks argues AI-safety advocacy — Anthropic's above all — is fear-mongering designed to lock in incumbents, and wants one light-touch federal standard instead of a 50-state patchwork or pre-approval regimes.
observed 2025-10-14 – 2026-07-17
Co-founder, Founders Fund; Chairman, Palantir
Global AI regulation is the apocalypse — literally
His Antichrist lectures cast one-world safety regulation as the true civilizational danger, inverting the doomer argument: the Antichrist arrives promising to save us from AI.
observed 2026-03-13 – 2026-07-18
Co-founder & General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Deceleration costs lives
The manifesto position: AI safety-ism is a death cult, regulation is capture, and building faster is the moral imperative. The direct antithesis of the Amodei-Altman pacing agenda.
observed 2023-10-16 – 2026-07-09
