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Comment by Margrethe Vestager

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Former EU Commission executive vice-president for Competition; AI governance advocate
These technologies – with their extraordinary potential benefits and equally extraordinary risks – cannot be governed by any single country, no matter how powerful it is. Effective governance requires exactly what we are missing: legitimate, effective global cooperation. We can build governance frameworks for AI from the ground up, and what we build can properly reflect today's multipolar reality, rather than yesterday's Western dominance. [...] Rather than creating bureaucracy, [we need] frameworks similar to aviation safety or pandemic surveillance systems — technical cooperation grounded in shared self-interest, with mechanisms for rapid information sharing and coordinated responses. AI Unverifiable source (2026)
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Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI

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AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to Margrethe Vestager (former EU Commission EVP for Competition, 2026) arguing AI technologies cannot be governed by any single country, that effective governance needs legitimate global cooperation, that frameworks can be built from the ground up reflecting today's multipolar reality, modeled on aviation safety or pandemic surveillance with rapid info-sharing. The source_url (koreatimes.co.kr, 9 Feb 2026, "New world order or bust") is the correct primary source but returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch. Web search corroborated, attributing to Vestager in this exact Korea Times op-ed the lines "cannot be governed by any single country, no matter how powerful it is" and that "effective governance requires legitimate, effective global cooperation," in the context of reformed multilateralism for AI governance — matching the quote's wording and substance (the aviation/pandemic analogy wasn't surfaced verbatim but is consistent). Vote 'for' on statement #360 ("Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI") aligns with her call for legitimate global/multilateral AI governance. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the source page could not be fetched directly; corroboration is strong. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 7d ago
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