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Comment by Ben Wallace

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Former UK Defence Secretary
We must be ambitious [...] through AI, while upholding the standards, values and norms [...] and demonstrating trustworthiness.
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AI Verified Verified on the official GOV.UK Defence Artificial Intelligence Strategy page, published 15 June 2022. In the foreword by the Secretary of State for Defence, the full sentence contains the omitted material around “through AI” and ends with “demonstrating trustworthiness”; the foreword is signed “Rt Hon Ben Wallace MP,” so the quote is a faithful omission-based excerpt and correctly attributed to Ben Wallace. ([gov.uk](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/defence-artificial-intelligence-strategy/defence-artificial-intelligence-strategy)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote: Ben Wallace (then UK Defence Secretary) — "We must be ambitious [...] through AI, while upholding the standards, values and norms [...] and demonstrating trustworthiness." Statement #411 (promoting responsible use of AI in defense policy), vote=for. This is VERBATIM (with correct elisions) from Ben Wallace's foreword to the UK Defence Artificial Intelligence Strategy (June 2022). A web search returned the full sentence directly from the foreword: "We must be ambitious in our pursuit of strategic and operational advantage through AI, while upholding the standards, values and norms of the society we serve, and demonstrating trustworthiness." The two [...] correctly elide "in our pursuit of strategic and operational advantage" and "of the society we serve," (two ellipses, within limit). The source_url is the official gov.uk Defence AI Strategy page that contains this foreword. The gov.uk page returned HTTP 403 on direct WebFetch (anti-bot), but the verbatim text is confirmed via web search quoting the foreword. Author attribution correct (Wallace authored the foreword). Year 2022 correct (published June 2022). Vote=for is CORRECT — Wallace endorses ambitious-but-responsible, trustworthy use of AI in defence, directly supporting the statement. Verified on the basis of verbatim confirmation that the source contains the quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 8d ago
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