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...
Hec Perez
@hecperez.com
AI & Elixir team lead/manager at Doofinder, creator of @notes.club (Livebooks) and YouCongress.org (liquid democracy + verified expert positions on AI Governance & the impact of AI on society). Organizer of the Elixir Madrid meetup.
YouCongress dataset can now be downloaded as CSV (CC BY 4.0 license) networksocieties.com/p/youcongres...
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.
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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...
OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.
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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
AI 2040: Plan A
A detailed forecast and recommendation for how the US, China and the rest of the world should navigate superintelligence.
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Should AI agents be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations? youcongress.org/p/ai-legal-p...
AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations / YouCongress
Who's for and against "AI agents should be granted legal personhood as non-human corporations"? 39 sourced quotes including Javier Milei, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Elisa Carrió.
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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...
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.
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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...
El camino de Elixir hacia el tipado estático gradual , Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Lenguajes con tipos estáticos en origen hay muchos, y cada vez más ecosistemas de tipado dinámico están añadiendo tipado estático. Elixir emprendió este camino hace ya uno
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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...
Yoshua Bengio thinks he knows how to build safe superintelligence | 80,000 Hours
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On May 7th at Elixir Madrid, Bruce Tate speaks on "Juniors, agents, and the coming apocalypse: How to make Juniors more productive" www.meetup.com/madrid-elixi...
Juniors, agents, and the coming apocalypse: How to make Juniors more productive, Thu, May 7, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
This month, Bruce Tate (CEO of grox.io and author of books such as Programming Phoenix and Programming Phoenix LiveView) will talk about agents and how to increase junior d
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Major LLMs appear to nudge users away from extreme positions and toward moderate, expert-aligned stances. The opposite of social media's polarising effect. Interesting, given how much we've heard about LLMs' tendency to agree with whatever the user says.
I connected YouCongress to Claude via MCP and asked: "What should Spain do to prepare for a post-AGI world?" It pulled 78 expert quotes and clustered them into 4 perspectives. Not pro vs con but 4 worldviews with different policy implications.
OpenAI launched an Elixir app this week: Symphony. It’s an orchestrator for coding agents that start working on issues when you move them into the Todo column in Linear. I’ve been experimenting with it over the past few days and it’s a pretty interesting direction for agent workflows.
Who's going to the ElixirConf EU Málaga? Early Bird tickets end in less than a week! Drop a 👋 below if you're going, I'd love to connect in person.
I beta tested this and it’s amazing. I asked Claude Code: find all html and accessibility errors of YouCongress via Rocket Validator’s MCP tool and fix them. After a few runs, all green. ✅
Rocket Validator@rocketvalidator.com · 6mo agoTalk to Your Accessibility Data! Now in public beta, we have an official MCP that you can use to connect your accessibility validation reports to Claude and ask it to run reports, recheck, summarise issues, get a how-to-fix guide... whatever you can imagine rocketvalidator.com/mcp
Elixir Madrid workshop materials: LLMs, Agents & MCP in Elixir apps. Livebook examples → notes.club/hectorperez/... #ElixirLang
Notesclub · Livebook Notebooks (Elixir)
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This Wednesday, I’ll be teaching a workshop on LLMs, Agents, and MCP in Elixir. We are fully booked! 🚫🪑 However, if you want me to send you the Livebook notebook with all the content afterwards, just drop a comment or DM me. #ElixirLang
Second event of the year in Elixir Madrid: a smiling plant powered by Erlang on embedded hardware by Icia Carro, an Erlang/OTP project on embedded boards + pizza & drinks. www.meetup.com/madrid-elixi...
Eustaquia: A smiling plant powered by Erlang on embedded hardware | Icia Carro, Thu, Feb 12, 2026, 7:00 PM | Meetup
Imagine a plant that greets you with a smile when it’s well watered and slowly turns sad when it’s thirsty. (Please enter your full name on https://tally.so/r/WOExxj to ac
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The biggest near-term risk from AI isn’t “evil superintelligence.” It’s a coordination failure. I expand on why this matters using the Fermi Paradox as a metaphor: 👉 open.substack.com/pub/networks...
Why the AGI race may be bigger near-term existential risk than misalignment
A Fermi-paradox metaphor for coordination failure
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Just tried asking Claude (desktop) to create a simple Livebook tool for me, and it worked! Once done, I can click "Open in Livebook" and it opens directly in my Livebook desktop 🎉 Try with "create a livebook to..." #ElixirLang
Empiezo el año impartiendo este taller de IA en el meetup de Elixir Madrid. @jaimeiniesta.com gracias por compartir 🙌 ¡Nos vemos allí!
Jaime Iniesta@jaimeiniesta.com · 7mo agoEste taller práctico de LLMs, agentes y MCP con Elixir de @hecperez.com pinta estupendo, ¿nos vemos allí? www.meetup.com/madrid-elixi... #ElixirLang #Madrid #AI
Most AIs compress disagreement into one answer. Governance needs the opposite: sourced quotes, stance-labeled (For / Abstain / Against), linked to primary sources. open.substack.com/pub/networks...
Human testimony in the age of AI
Why public decisions need sourced quotes, not just AI answers
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I signed the "superintelligence statement". Yet, beyond "flourish or doom", there’s a quieter risk: If the US/China build it now, they'll enforce a "non-proliferation" to keep it that way. That’s how a Perpetual Technological Cage begins for the rest of us: networksocieties.com/p/the-perpet...
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 superintelligence statement.
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We’ve removed AI-generated perspectives. All expert and public-figure stances on YouCongress now come from verifiable, sourced quotes—so you can delegate with confidence.