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Former First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Harvard economist
of a much bigger magnitude [...] very large job losses much bigger than what was seen after the great financial crisis.
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AI Verified The Harvard Gazette page at the provided URL, published March 23, 2026, contains both quoted fragments on line 88 and attributes them to Gita Gopinath; the stored author, date, URL, and excerpted wording are consistent with the source, with [...] marking omitted intervening text. ([news.harvard.edu](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/economists-weigh-consequences-of-war-tariffs-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed Harvard Gazette’s March 23, 2026 article does attribute a similar statement to Gita Gopinath, and the Harvard FAS symposium transcript matches it, but the supplied wording is not verbatim. The sources say AI threats are “of a much bigger magnitude” and, separately, “The risk is that if we end up having a recession in a few years … we could go through a transition of very large job losses …” — not “A recession could go through …” ([news.harvard.edu](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/03/economists-weigh-consequences-of-war-tariffs-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable Source URL (Harvard Gazette) returned HTTP 403, blocking direct fetch. Web search confirms Gita Gopinath, former IMF First Deputy Managing Director, warned that "Threats to the labor market due to artificial intelligence are of a much bigger magnitude" and that a recession could cause "very large job losses much bigger than what was seen after the great financial crisis." Confirmed by Harvard Gazette, Fortune, and WEF podcast. Vote direction (against) is correct. Year (2026) and author attribution are correct. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Gita Gopinath about AI threats being of "much bigger magnitude" than the great financial crisis. Web search confirms this from Harvard Gazette (March 2026) at the provided URL. Gopinath, former First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF, spoke at the FAS Symposium. Vote "against" is correctly aligned -- Gopinath warns of very large job losses exceeding the 2008 crisis. Year 2026 is current. Quote is relevant to statement 389. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
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