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U.S. OSTP Director
We totally reject all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI. [...] Ideological fixations on social equity, climate catastrophism and so-called existential risk are dangers to progress and obstacles to responsibly harnessing this technology as an extension of human ingenuity and capacities.
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AI poses an existential threat to humanity
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AI Verified The quote explicitly dismisses "so-called existential risk" as an ideological fixation and obstacle to progress, which clearly implies the author rejects the claim that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
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AI Verified The quote dismisses concerns about AI as a "so-called existential risk" and calls such focus an "obstacle" to harnessing AI, which clearly opposes the claim that AI poses an existential threat to humanity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition to the full proposal: a UN-led body overseeing compute-intensive AI is a form of international, centralized governance of AI, and the author says they "totally reject all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI." · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
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AI Verified The quote says, "We totally reject all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI," which clearly opposes a UN-led international oversight body for AI. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation
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AI Verified The quote clearly implies opposition: rejecting 'all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI' is incompatible with supporting a binding international AI safety treaty akin to nuclear non-proliferation. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
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AI Verified The quote says, "We totally reject all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI," which clearly opposes a binding international AI-safety treaty. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic. The UN Security Council provisional verbatim record S/PV.10005, dated 2025-09-24, attributes the speech to Mr. Kratsios (United States of America) and contains the first cited sentence at lines 1185-1186 and the second at lines 1193-1195 of the PDF; the ellipsis only omits intervening sentences from the same passage. A White House OSTP page identifies this official as Michael Kratsios. ([documents.un.org](https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/pro/n25/249/70/pdf/n2524970.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
Disputed Disputed: Kratsios expressed these ideas, but the NBC-linked reporting and the official UN Security Council transcript do not contain the submitted passage verbatim. In the transcript, he says “We totally reject all efforts ... global governance of AI,” then several sentences later separately criticizes “ideological fixations”; the official text ends with “this technology,” not “this tech,” and uses “We,” not “The US,” so the version given is a merged/altered rendering. An apparent social-media mirror shows a shortened variant, but that is a different source from the NBC article. ([digitallibrary.un.org](https://digitallibrary.un.org/nanna/record/4091377/files/S_PV.10005-EN.pdf?registerDownload=1&version=1&withMetadata=0&withWatermark=0)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 8d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Michael Kratsios (US OSTP Director, 2025): "The US totally rejects all efforts by international bodies to assert centralized control and global governance of AI. Ideological fixations on social equity, climate catastrophism, and so-called existential risk are dangers to progress and obstacles to responsibly harnessing this tech." The source_url (nbcnews.com) returns HTTP 403, so I could not fetch it directly. Web search confirms the quote verbatim: it matches Kratsios's own X post (x.com/mkratsios47/status/1970961892433961128, ~Sept 2025, tied to his UN General Assembly remarks — consistent with the NBC article's "un-general-assembly" slug and the year 2025). Vote direction "against" on statement 360 ("Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI") is correct: Kratsios explicitly rejects centralized international/UN governance of AI. Attribution, year (2025), and vote alignment all check out. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source_url blocks automated access; the quote is genuine and accurately attributed. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 18d ago
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