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Comment by Terry Bouricius

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Sortition advocate; former Vermont legislator
Eventually, on a national or state level, [...] AI regulation, [...] might be moved from politicians to large, diverse, randomly selected panels.
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Use sortition (random selection of citizens) to staff AI oversight boards
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AI Verified The quote directly proposes shifting AI regulation from politicians to "large, diverse, randomly selected panels," which clearly matches using sortition to staff AI oversight bodies. Although phrased tentatively ("might"), it still indicates support for the core idea. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote says AI regulation "might be moved" to "large, diverse, randomly selected panels," which suggests a possibility, not an unambiguous endorsement of using sortition for AI oversight boards. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago

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AI Verified Verified. The supplied Jacobin URL resolves to a December 14, 2025 article, “Sortition Can Help Cure What Ails Our Democracy,” by Terry Bouricius. In that article, Bouricius writes that policy areas including “health care, AI regulation, or taxation” could eventually be shifted from politicians to randomly selected panels; your version is a faithful ellipsis-based excerpt and is correctly attributed to him. ([jacobin.com](https://jacobin.com/2025/12/sortition-democracy-elections-representation-governance)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
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