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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, speaking on AI's impact on recruitment.
Fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance. They must be taken by elected governments who serve working people. [...] [A] single set of global principles and standards to ensure the transparency and access we need to increase our preparedness – and to ensure that AI development is safe.
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Andy Burnham, UK Prime Minister, quoted in David Hughes, “AI safety should be an issue for governments - UK PM Andy Burnham,” AJ Bell/Press Association, September 23, 2026. The article reports Burnham told the UN: “Fundamental decisions on this technology are too important to be left to chance. They must be taken by elected governments who serve working people,” and that the UK would work toward a “single set of global principles and standards ... to ensure that AI development is safe.”
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Disputed AJ Bell’s 23 Sep report supports the two passages, but the stored quote changes the source wording to “[A]”; only an ellipsis is permitted. The canonical second fragment begins lowercase “a” within the reporter’s sentence. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 40min ago
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