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Humans should remain in the loop somewhere, McGregor says, rather than letting AI loose without oversight.
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AI Verified Verified: the provided URL is a Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists article titled “What experts can learn by tracking AI harms,” credited to Katie Peek and dated January 16, 2026. The exact quoted sentence appears verbatim in the article body. ([thebulletin.org](https://thebulletin.org/2026/01/what-experts-can-learn-by-tracking-ai-harms/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Disputed. At the supplied URL, the January 16, 2026 Bulletin article is authored by Katie Peek, not Sean McGregor, and the relevant line appears as: “Humans should remain in the loop somewhere, McGregor says, rather than letting AI loose without oversight.” The submitted version removes “McGregor says” without ellipsis, so it is not a verbatim quote as given; I also did not find a reliable source showing that exact wording as a direct Sean McGregor quotation. A Harvard Berkman repost preserves the same non-verbatim wording. ([thebulletin.org](https://thebulletin.org/2026/01/what-experts-can-learn-by-tracking-ai-harms/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists source URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but a web search confirmed the quote verbatim from the January 2026 article "What experts can learn by tracking AI harms": "Humans should remain in the loop somewhere, McGregor says, rather than letting AI loose without oversight." Attribution to Sean McGregor (Executive Director of the AI Incident Database, Berkman Klein Center fellow) is correct and year 2026 is current. The "for" vote on "Require human-in-the-loop oversight for agentic AI systems acting in high-stakes domains" aligns directly with McGregor's stated position. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 1mo ago
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