Comment by Margaret Mitchell

Chief Ethics Scientist at Hugging Face; co-creator of model cards; former co-lead of Google's Ethical AI team
Regulation is tending to lag AI development. [...] A lot of the people who are marginalized end up having more unfair representations.
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AI Verified Verified. The Morocco World News article at the provided URL, published Feb. 11, 2026, contains both exact sentences — “Regulation is tending to lag AI development” and “A lot of the people who are marginalized end up having more unfair representations” — and attributes both to Margaret Mitchell. The stored date, source URL, author, and ellipsized content are consistent with the source. ([moroccoworldnews.com](https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2026/02/278314/researcher-margaret-mitchell-on-power-privacy-open-ai-at-ai-everything-mea-egypt/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Morocco World News (Feb. 11, 2026) does attribute both remarks to Margaret Mitchell, but separately: “Regulation is tending to lag AI development” appears earlier, while a later quote says marginalized people “end up having more unfair representations.” Because the submitted version stitches and reverses two separate remarks, it is not verbatim as presented. ([moroccoworldnews.com](https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2026/02/278314/researcher-margaret-mitchell-on-power-privacy-open-ai-at-ai-everything-mea-egypt/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. The quote ("A lot of the people who are marginalized end up having more unfair representations. [...] Regulation is tending to lag AI development.") is confirmed verbatim from Margaret Mitchell (Chief Ethics Scientist, Hugging Face; co-creator of model cards) at the AI Everything MEA Egypt 2026 conference in Cairo, per the exact moroccoworldnews.com source_url. WebFetch returned HTTP 403, but web search confirmed both verbatim segments and attribution. Author attribution correct. Year 2026 current. Vote alignment: the "for" vote on "Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems" is consistent on substance — Mitchell highlights structural AI bias harming marginalized groups and a regulatory lag, and her broader work (model cards, AI accountability/transparency advocacy) strongly supports independent auditing of AI systems. Note: the specific quote speaks to the bias/accountability problem that audits address rather than naming third-party audits explicitly, but the directional "for" alignment is well-supported. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 29d ago
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