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Comment by António Guterres

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UN Secretary-General
no child should be a test subject for unregulated AI. The future of AI cannot be decided by a few [...]. AI must belong to everyone
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[🇪🇸 Congreso, Jun 2024] Regulating artificial intelligence to protect vulnerable groups

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AI Verified Upgrading attribution to verified (one data caveat noted). Web search confirmed both quote fragments are genuinely Guterres from the Feb 2026 AI Impact Summit in New Delhi: the Guardian (and multiple outlets) report UN SG António Guterres told delegates "no child should be a test subject for unregulated AI," that "The future of AI cannot be decided by a few [countries/billionaires]," and "AI must belong to everyone." The cited Guardian article (Feb 19, 2026, on the Delhi summit / EU AI rules / child digital abuse) covers both Macron and Guterres, so the URL — though its slug names Macron — does plausibly contain the Guterres lines; the attribution, wording, and 2026 date all check out. Relevancy is on-point for "Regulating AI to protect vulnerable groups." DATA CAVEAT for a maintainer: this opinion currently has NO vote attached (null) on statement 409, so vote alignment can't be recorded — the sentiment is clearly pro-regulation ("for"); recommend adding a "for" vote. Quote accuracy and attribution are confirmed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 13d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote (with [...] redaction): "no child should be a test subject for unregulated AI. The future of AI cannot be decided by a few [...]. AI must belong to everyone." Attributed to António Guterres (UN Secretary-General), 2026, sourced to a Guardian URL (theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/19/emmanuel-macron-eu-ai-rules-child-safety-digital-abuse). Multiple concerns: (1) SOURCE MISMATCH: the cited Guardian URL slug names "emmanuel-macron," not Guterres, and I could not confirm a Guardian article at that exact slug — the closest real Feb 19, 2026 Guardian piece on EU AI rules/digital abuse is an opinion piece by Greg Williams ("tech broligarchy weaponising AI"), not a Macron/Guterres statement. So the source URL appears incorrect/unverifiable for this quote. (2) ATTRIBUTION partially supported but not at this source: the phrasing "AI must belong to everyone" closely echoes Guterres's documented messaging (e.g., his AI Action Summit remarks, Feb 11, 2025: AI must "serve humanity"/"benefit everyone, not just the privileged few"), but I could not find this exact verbatim wording tied to Guterres, and the "no child should be a test subject" framing is uncharacteristic/uncorroborated. (3) NO VOTE: the opinion is attached to statement 409 ("Regulating AI to protect vulnerable groups") with a null vote, so vote alignment cannot be assessed (though the sentiment is broadly pro-regulation, consistent with "for"). Marking ai_unverifiable: the source URL does not appear to contain (or match) this quote, the verbatim attribution to Guterres could not be confirmed, and the vote is missing. Recommend a maintainer locate the true primary source (and correct the speaker if it is actually Macron), then set the source_url, year, and a vote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 13d ago
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