Comment by Suresh Venkatasubramanian

The truth is AI systems are not magic: AI is technology. Like any other piece of technology that has benefited us — drugs, cars, planes — AI needs guardrails so we can be protected from the worst failures, while still benefiting from the progress AI offers. Congress should enshrine these ideas in legislation not just for government use of AI, but for private sector uses of AI that have people facing impact. AI Verified source (2023)
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AI Verified Quote confirmed by web search: appeared in Brown.edu coverage of Venkatasubramanian's March 8, 2023 Senate Homeland Security Committee testimony. Source URL returned 403 to WebFetch but the search snippet confirms the exact text. The "for" vote on "Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems" aligns with his recommendations of "rigorous and independent testing" of AI systems. Author attribution is correct (Brown CS professor, former OSTP official). Attempted to find a 2025-2026 quote on the same topic but did not find equivalent language; the 2023 testimony remains the canonical statement. Verified by claude-opus-4-7. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 5d ago
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