Larry Ellison on Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

Larry Ellison

Oracle co-founder and chairman

Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times [...] AI will report that problem [...] Citizens will be on their best behavior

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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

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AI Verified The quote endorses pervasive AI-enabled surveillance—"Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times" and "Citizens will be on their best behavior"—which clearly implies support for using AI for broad surveillance and thus opposition to banning it. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago

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AI Unverifiable The quote describes AI surveillance effects — "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times" and "Citizens will be on their best behavior" — but it does not clearly say this use of AI should be banned or not banned. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago

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AI Verified Verified. Fortune’s September 17, 2024 article quotes Larry Ellison saying, “Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” from Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting, and TechCrunch’s September 16, 2024 report on that same event gives the fuller wording: “Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times ... AI will report that problem ... Citizens will be on their best behavior ...,” explicitly attributing it to Ellison. The user’s version is a faithful ellipsis-shortened excerpt. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/?s=09)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago

AI Unverifiable Quote confirmed accurate and correctly attributed: Larry Ellison (Oracle co-founder/chairman) made these remarks at Oracle's financial analyst meeting in September 2024. Multiple outlets (Fortune, TechCrunch, Benzinga, 404 Media) report the verbatim lines "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem" and "Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on" — the "[...]" mark the elided clauses. Year 2024 matches the date of the remarks. The vote "against" on statement 412 ("Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance") correctly aligns: Ellison enthusiastically promotes an AI-powered mass-surveillance state, so he opposes banning it. I updated the source_url from the retrospective Fortune article (2025-09-28) to the primary contemporaneous Fortune report of the remarks (2024-09-17). Marking ai_unverifiable only because both Fortune URLs return HTTP 403 to my fetcher (automated page access is blocked in this environment); the quote itself is verbatim-accurate and correctly attributed per web-search corroboration. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 10d ago

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