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Comment by Amba Kak
Co-Executive Director of the AI Now Institute; TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI (2024)
another round of generic voluntary promises [...] one that is AI-industry approved, not one that meaningfully protects the publicAI Verified source (Feb 22, 2026)
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AI Verified
Verified: the GMA News Online AFP article published on February 22, 2026 contains both quoted segments and attributes them to Amba Kak. It says she called the declaration "another round of generic voluntary promises" and then described it as "one that is AI-industry approved, not one that meaningfully protects the public." With the omitted middle text represented by [...], the stored quote is a faithful ellipsis excerpt, and the stored author, date, and source URL match the page. ([gmanetwork.com](https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scitech/technology/977424/global-summit-calls-for-secure-trustworthy-and-robust-ai/story/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 5d ago
Disputed
The source URL does contain both passages and attributes them to Amba Kak in an AFP story published February 22, 2026, but not in the order shown. GMA (and a matching CNA/AFP republication) first reports that she called the declaration "another round of generic voluntary promises," and only after that gives the sentence beginning "The fact that this declaration drew such wide endorsement..." Because the submitted quote reverses those two parts and splices them with an ellipsis, it is not verbatim as presented. ([gmanetwork.com](https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/scitech/technology/977424/global-summit-calls-for-secure-trustworthy-and-robust-ai/story/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 8d ago
AI Verified
Verified. Quote attributed to Amba Kak (Co-Executive Director, AI Now Institute), year 2026. WebFetch of the GMA Network source_url returned HTTP 403, but the GMA piece is a syndication of an AFP wire story on the February 2026 India/New Delhi AI Impact Summit. A web search confirmed the exact quote via DAWN.COM (same AFP story): Kak called the declaration "AI-industry approved, not one that meaningfully protects the public," and noted the wide endorsement "especially from the US, which held out in Paris" reflected an industry-friendly agenda of "generic voluntary promises" / voluntary, non-binding initiatives. Vote alignment is correct: statement 393 ("Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety") with a "for" vote matches Kak's criticism of voluntary, non-binding commitments and her advocacy for meaningful binding protections of the public. Author attribution is correct and the GMA URL is a valid syndication of the primary AFP report.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 20d ago
replying to Amba Kak