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Science informs, but humans decide. Our goal is to make human control a technical reality, not a slogan. And that requires meaningful human oversight in every high-stakes decision — in justice, healthcare, credit.
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Ban fully automated hiring decisions without human review
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports meaningful human oversight and says “humans decide” in “every high-stakes decision,” which implies opposition to fully automated decisions without human review. Though hiring is not named, the stance on requiring human control in high-stakes decisions supports the statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote supports 'meaningful human oversight in every high-stakes decision,' but it does not specifically mention hiring or explicitly call for a ban on fully automated hiring decisions. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains
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AI Verified The quote clearly supports meaningful human oversight in all high-stakes decisions, explicitly naming domains like justice, healthcare, and credit. While it does not say 'agentic AI systems' verbatim, 'make human control a technical reality' clearly implies technology/AI systems in those domains should remain under human-in-the-loop control. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
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AI Verified The quote says 'humans decide' and that 'every high-stakes decision' requires 'meaningful human oversight,' which clearly supports requiring human-in-the-loop oversight in high-stakes domains. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago

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AI Verified The quote is authentic: the official UN Secretary-General remarks for 2026-02-20 contain these sentences verbatim, aside from typographic dash normalization, and UN Web TV lists the same AI Impact Summit side event on 20 February 2026. The official UN Digital Library record for SG/SM/23023 identifies António Guterres as the author, gives the date 2026-02-20, and maps the English text to the supplied press.un.org URL, so the stored author, date, content, and source URL match the official UN record. ([un.org](https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statements/2026-02-20/secretary-generals-remarks-the-ai-impact-summit-side-event-the-role-of-science-ai-governance-delivered?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Official UN sources do attribute these 20 February 2026 AI Impact Summit remarks to António Guterres, and the UN Digital Library record for SG/SM/23023 links to the cited press release. But the source wording is: "Our goal is to make human control a technical reality – not a slogan. And that requires meaningful human oversight..." The submitted version omits "– not a slogan" and changes "And that requires" to "It requires," so it is not verbatim. ([un.org](https://www.un.org/sg/en/node/402151?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. The source URL (press.un.org/en/2026/sgsm23023.doc.htm) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search of the document's indexed content confirmed all three quoted segments verbatim: "Science informs, but humans decide", "make human control a technical reality" (full: "make human control a technical reality, not a slogan"), and "meaningful human oversight in every high-stakes decision — in justice, healthcare, credit." This was from Guterres's remarks at the side event on the Role of Science in International AI Governance at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi (Feb 2026), correctly attributed to the UN Secretary-General. Year 2026 is current. The vote "for" on statement #418 ("Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains") correctly aligns with Guterres's strong endorsement of human oversight in high-stakes decisions. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 28d ago
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