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Comment by Thierry Breton

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EU internal market commissioner
We are regulating as little as possible and as much as needed with proportionate measures for AI models. The AI Act ensures that high-risk AI systems must assess and reduce risks, maintain use logs, be transparent and accurate, and ensure human oversight. AI Unverifiable source (2024)
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Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains

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AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Thierry Breton (EU Commissioner for Internal Market), year 2024, "for" statement #418 ("Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains"). Source: Al Jazeera article on the EU Parliament greenlighting the AI Act (2024-03-13). Findings: (1) The source returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch. (2) Quote accuracy/attribution: web search confirms Breton said "We are regulating as little as possible — but as much as needed!" on 13 March 2024 following the AI Act's approval, and the remainder of the quote accurately states the AI Act's real high-risk obligations (risk assessment/reduction, use logs, transparency, accuracy, and human oversight — Article 14). The statement is correctly attributed to Breton. (3) Author title verified (EU internal market commissioner). (4) Vote alignment: the quote explicitly says high-risk AI systems must "ensure human oversight," directly supporting the statement; "for" is clearly correct and relevance is strong. (5) STALENESS: year 2024, older than 2025/2026; protocol prefers a recent replacement. I could not obtain a verifiable verbatim recent (2025-2026) Breton replacement on this topic (note: Breton left the European Commission in 2024). Marked ai_unverifiable due to the 2024 staleness and blocked source; the quote text, attribution, vote, and relevance are otherwise sound and confirmed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 8d ago
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