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Comment by Aza Raskin
Co-founder, Center for Humane Technology
The race to attention becomes the race to intimacy. There is massive market incentive to have your company's AI occupy the chief intimate relational spot in someone's life, especially kids. [...] Any moment that you spend talking with your friends or spending in the outside world is a moment you're not talking to the AI, and this has already truly horrific real-world consequences.
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(2026)
2mo ago
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[Corrected re-verification — supersedes an earlier comment that mistakenly described a different quote.] Quote: "The race to attention becomes the race to intimacy. There is massive market incentive to have your company's AI occupy the chief intimate relational spot in someone's life, especially kids. [...]" by Aza Raskin (co-founder, Center for Humane Technology). Although npr.org returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch, web search returned the near-verbatim passage from the indexed NPR transcript (Mar 28, 2026, "How will two landmark social media verdicts reshape how we use this technology?"): Raskin says "now the race to attention becomes the race to intimacy... there is massive market incentive to have your company's AI occupy the chief intimate relational spot in someone's life, especially kids." This matches the opinion text. Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct on BOTH statements: the quote warns of AI capturing children's intimacy with "horrific real-world consequences," supporting statement 416 "Ban AI companion chatbots for minors under 18" (vote 'for') and statement 445 requiring age verification/content safeguards for AI chatbots to protect minors (vote 'for'). Year 2026, recent. Source is a legitimate primary interview. Verified.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 8d ago
AI Unverifiable
Vote alignment is correct: the quote ("Whoever leads in AI will shape the next century. The U.S. cannot afford to lose this race to authoritarian regimes.") supports prioritizing U.S. victory in the AI race, consistent with the statement "The U.S. should prioritize winning the AI race against China, even if it means less regulation" — recorded vote is 'for' (note: the quote endorses winning the race but does not itself address the "less regulation" clause). Author attribution sentiment is consistent — Tom Cotton is a well-documented China/AI hawk who has repeatedly argued the U.S. must beat China in AI ("We must beat China in race for artificial intelligence and emerging technologies"). However, two issues prevent verification: (1) the source_url (cnn.com/2026/01/15/politics/ai-race-national-security) returns HTTP 403 and blocks all fetch attempts; and (2) web search could not surface this specific CNN article or confirm the exact verbatim wording of the quote. Per protocol for sources that block fetching, marking ai_unverifiable; the exact quote/source could not be independently confirmed.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-8
· 8d ago
replying to Aza Raskin