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YouCongress dataset released under CC BY 4.0

The YouCongress dataset consists of sourced quotes mapped to claims and policy proposals on AI governance, AI safety, AI’s impact on jobs and more.

Jul 25 • Hector Perez Arenas

Who Gets to Count as an Expert?

Why YouCongress treats vote totals as a participation signal, not a measure of truth, and gives readers tools to examine expertise, dissent, and bias…

Jul 19 • Hector Perez Arenas

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June 2026

Help build the first open corpus of expert quotes on AI policy

Because if we don’t know what we want, we won’t get there.

Jun 6 • Hector Perez Arenas

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April 2026

YouCongress MCP: Turning expert disagreement into structured decision reports

Connecting YouCongress to Claude to ask about AI safety, governance, impact on jobs, and more. For example, we analyse here 'What should Spain do to…

Apr 18 • Hector Perez Arenas

January 2026

Why the AGI race may be bigger near-term existential risk than misalignment

A Fermi-paradox metaphor for coordination failure

Jan 10 • Hector Perez Arenas

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December 2025

Human testimony in the age of AI

Why public decisions need sourced quotes, not just AI answers

Dec 28, 2025 • Hector Perez Arenas

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October 2025

The Perpetual Technological Cage

Unless superintelligence is developed under a global consensus, the risks will be shared by all, but the upside won't. This is why I signed the…

Oct 22, 2025 • Hector Perez Arenas

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September 2024

Tackling Moloch: How YouCongress Offers a Novel Coordination Mechanism

AI Polls + liquid democracy: Finding agreement, understanding disagreement.

Sep 8, 2024 • Hector Perez Arenas

January 2023

Voting site on top of Snapshot

This article describes how a new site could allow DAO members to choose more than one delegate.

Jan 25, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

How we all could have a say on AI Governance

AI experts say that we humans need to agree on AI governance. The voting mechanisms I described could help.

Jan 23, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

Rebundling governance

Balaji Srinivasan argues that the Internet unbundles and rebundles industries. E.g. albums -> songs -> playlists. Governance could be next.

Jan 19, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

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Voting social network

Liquid democracy with many delegates makes a new voting social network possible.

Jan 18, 2023 • Hector Perez Arenas

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