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Comment by James S. Fishkin

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Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University; pioneer of Deliberative Polling
This industry-wide deliberative forum represents a crucial step in democratizing the discourse around AI agents, ensuring that the public's voice is heard in a representative and thoughtful way as we collectively shape the future of this transformative technology.
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AI Verified The supplied Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab page contains this sentence verbatim and attributes it to "James Fishkin, Director of Stanford's Deliberative Democracy Lab." Stanford's official profile page identifies that person as James S. Fishkin, so the attribution is correct. The quote is authentic, but the page is dated June 25, 2025, so the year should be 2025 rather than 2026. ([deliberation.stanford.edu](https://deliberation.stanford.edu/industry-wide-deliberative-forum-invites-public-weigh-future-ai-agents)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Year 2026 (current). Stanford source returns HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim from "Industry-Wide Deliberative Forum Invites Public to Weigh In on the Future of AI Agents." James Fishkin (Director, Deliberative Democracy Lab) said: "This industry-wide deliberative forum represents a crucial step in democratizing the discourse around AI agents, ensuring that the public's voice is heard in a representative and thoughtful way as we collectively shape the future of this transformative technology." Corroborated by FSI Stanford. Attribution is correct. The forum uses Stanford's Deliberative Polling methodology, which draws a random, representative sample of citizens (503 participants from US/India) — i.e., sortition. The vote "for" on statement 405 ("Use sortition (random selection of citizens) to staff AI oversight boards") aligns with Fishkin's pioneering advocacy of random-sample citizen deliberation applied to AI governance. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 18d ago
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