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Physicist, AI Researcher
It's their fault that we have the race condition in the first place. [...] All of [the AI labs] succumb to the incentives. [...]
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AI Verified The supplied Axios article by Ina Fried, published March 3, 2026, explicitly attributes both quoted fragments to Max Tegmark; the URL contains them in adjacent bullets, and the stored excerpt faithfully combines those verbatim fragments with bracketed omissions. No correction is needed. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/ai-race-safety-guardrail)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed I found the March 3, 2026 Axios article, and it does attribute to Max Tegmark the direct statements “It’s their fault that we have the race condition in the first place” and “All of [the AI labs] succumb to the incentives.” However, the opening line in your version — about companies having stalled broad regulation — appears in Axios as reporter paraphrase (“Tegmark ... says that ...”), not as a verbatim quotation from Tegmark. So the submitted quote is not fully verbatim as presented. ([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/ai-race-safety-guardrail)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. Quote attributed to Max Tegmark (physicist, AI researcher, founder of the Future of Life Institute), year 2026. WebFetch of the Axios source_url returned HTTP 403, but a web search confirmed the exact quote from the same Axios article ("AI labs ease safety rules amid race pressure," March 3, 2026): Tegmark said AI companies "have stalled broad and meaningful regulation for years," that "it's their fault that we have the race condition in the first place," that "All of [the AI labs] succumb to the incentives," and "it's just maybe Anthropic is the most striking one because they were the ones who always talk such a big game about safety." Vote alignment is correct: statement 386 ("Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models") with a "for" vote matches Tegmark's pro-regulation position and his criticism of labs evading meaningful safety obligations. Author attribution and the Axios primary source are correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 1mo ago
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