Comment by Joe Biden

To realize the promise of AI and avoid the risks, we need to govern this technology, [...] It must be governed. [...] prevent the bias in AI tools [...] housing or benefits or a job.
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AI Verified Verified. The archived White House transcript dated October 30, 2023 places both quoted passages in the "THE PRESIDENT" section: "To realize the promise of AI and avoid the risks, we need to govern this technology ... It must be governed" and later "prevent the bias in AI tools ... housing or benefits or a job." The provided American Presidency Project URL also contains the same passages on the same date, so the quote is authentic, the ellipses are faithful omissions, and the attribution to Joe Biden is correct. ([bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov](https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/30/remarks-by-president-biden-and-vice-president-harris-on-the-administrations-commitment-to-advancing-the-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
Disputed The 2023 speech is real and correctly attributed to Joe Biden, and both the source URL and the official public-paper transcript contain the relevant passages. But your wording is not fully verbatim: the transcript says, “One thing is clear: To realize the promise of AI and avoid the risks, we need to govern this technology, not—and there’s no other way around it, in my view. It must be governed,” and later refers to “prevent the bias in AI tools that can be used to make decisions on whether or not someone qualifies for housing or benefits or a job.” Because your version removes words between “technology” and “It must be governed” without marking that omission, it is materially altered. ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202300948/pdf/DCPD-202300948.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago
AI Unverifiable Source_url is the American Presidency Project transcript (presidency.ucsb.edu) of Biden's Oct 30, 2023 remarks signing the EO on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI; it returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch. Web search corroborated the core quote: Biden said "to realize the promise of AI and avoid the risk, we need to govern this technology" upon signing EO 14110, and the EO/remarks address preventing AI bias/discrimination in housing (landlords), benefits (Federal benefits programs), and jobs (federal contractors/employment) — matching "prevent the bias in AI tools [...] housing or benefits or a job." The "for" vote on "Regulating artificial intelligence to protect vulnerable groups" aligns with Biden's pro-governance stance. This 2023 quote remains relevant and is kept. I searched for a genuine 2026 Biden statement to add alongside per instructions, but Biden left office Jan 2025 and no clear sourced 2026 statement exists, so I did not fabricate one. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source_url blocks fetching; the core quote is verbatim-corroborated. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 23d ago
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