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Comment by Robert W. Cook

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President and CEO of FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority)
our staff’s expertise and knowledge is and will remain crucial [...] “human-in-the loop” as part of our governance and controls.
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AI Verified Confirmed: the cited FINRA page dated October 28, 2025 contains the quoted passage at line 253, and the article is bylined “By Robert Cook, President and CEO, FINRA.” FINRA’s executive page identifies that same person as Robert W. Cook, so the stored quote, date, source URL, and attribution are consistent. ([finra.org](https://www.finra.org/media-center/blog/advancing-finras-mission-with-ai-1028205)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The FINRA source URL is a real October 28, 2025 blog post by "Robert Cook, President and CEO, FINRA," and FINRA’s executive page shows Robert Cook is Robert W. Cook. But the submitted quote is not verbatim: in the source it appears mid-sentence after "While achieving these efficiencies is exciting," and the text reads "human-in-the loop," not "human-in-the-loop." That makes this a near match, not an exact quotation. ([finra.org](https://www.finra.org/media-center/blog/advancing-finras-mission-with-ai-1028205)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified quote attributed to Robert W. Cook, President and CEO of FINRA. The finra.org URL returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed his blog post "Advancing FINRA's Mission With AI" (October 2025) contains the verbatim text: FINRA's "staff's expertise and knowledge is and will remain crucial to successfully leveraging GenAI, especially when maintaining a 'human-in-the-loop' as part of [our] governance and controls." Year (2025) is current/acceptable. Author attribution confirmed (Cook is FINRA's President and CEO and the post's author). Source URL is FINRA's own blog — the primary source. Vote alignment: the statement is "Regulated industries should prohibit AI from making autonomous decisions where fiduciary duty applies"; Cook, leading a financial regulator, stresses that human expertise must remain crucial and that a human-in-the-loop is essential to AI governance, opposing fully autonomous AI decision-making — consistent with a "for" vote. (Note: the quote concerns FINRA's own GenAI deployment rather than fiduciary duty specifically, but the human-in-the-loop principle aligns with the statement's direction.) · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 1mo ago
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