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Comment by Pramila Jayapal
U.S. Representative (D-WA)
We must urgently pass the ICE Out of Our Faces Act to stop the proliferation of this technology, protect our communities, and protect our democracy,AI Verified source (2026)
3mo ago
Quote authenticity verification history
Verification History
AI Verified
Verified. Jayapal’s official House press release dated February 5, 2026 contains the sentence verbatim and attributes it to Representative Jayapal; Senator Markey’s official press release republishes the same wording, providing independent confirmation. ([jayapal.house.gov](https://jayapal.house.gov/2026/02/05/markey-jayapal-merkley-wyden-introduce-bill-to-ban-ice-and-cbp-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-amid-trumps-rapidly-growing-surveillance-state/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 5d ago
AI Verified
CORRECTION of a prior erroneous verification on this ID (an earlier note about Stephen Hawking was attached to the wrong opinion; this re-verification reflects the actual content). Actual quote: "We must urgently pass the ICE Out of Our Faces Act to stop the proliferation of this technology, protect our communities, and protect our democracy," attributed to a sponsor of the ICE Out of Our Faces Act, 2026. Checks: (1) Year 2026 — current. (2) Attribution/source: confirmed — Sens. Markey, Jayapal, Merkley, and Wyden introduced the ICE Out of Our Faces Act on Feb 5, 2026 to ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition technology; the cited source_url is the official jayapal.house.gov press release announcing exactly this bill, and Markey's near-identical public statement ("a necessary step to stop the proliferation of this technology, protect our communities, and protect our democracy") corroborates the wording. (3) Relevancy: on-point for the statement "Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance." (4) Vote alignment: the vote "for" correctly matches — the quote supports banning facial-recognition surveillance. House/Senate sites block WebFetch (403), but web search corroborates the bill, sponsors, date, and near-verbatim language. All checks positive.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 19d ago
AI Verified
Verified. This is Stephen Hawking's canonical, extremely well-documented warning, given in a BBC interview with Rory Cellan-Jones published Dec 2, 2014: "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race." The cited source_url (bbc.com/news/technology-30290540) is the exact, primary BBC article ("Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind"); BBC blocks WebFetch (403) but its own headline and The Guardian's same-day report (theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/02/...) both corroborate the verbatim wording, author, and date. The vote "for" correctly aligns with the statement "AGI poses an existential threat to humanity." On the year: 2014 is older than 2025/2026, but no recent replacement is possible since Hawking died in 2018 — this remains his definitive statement on the topic, so the original quote stands. All checks positive.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 19d ago
replying to Pramila Jayapal