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Comment by Suresh Venkatasubramanian
Brown CS professor; former OSTP official
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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Verified. The Brown University page at the supplied URL contains this wording verbatim and attributes it to Suresh Venkatasubramanian (“Venkatasubramanian said” / “he said”). The official Congress.gov transcript of the March 8, 2023 Senate hearing corroborates the same passage, with only minor punctuation/hyphenation differences (for example, “magic.” vs “magic:” and “people-facing” vs “people facing”). ([brown.edu](https://www.brown.edu/news/2023-03-08/venkatasubramanian-testimony))
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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.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Suresh Venkatasubramanian