Comment by Sundar Pichai

Technology brings incredible benefits, but we must ensure everyone has access to them. We cannot allow the digital divide to become an AI divide.
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AI Verified Confirmed. The provided official Google blog URL is a Feb. 19, 2026 transcript of remarks by Sundar Pichai; it says "Today CEO Sundar Pichai gave remarks... Read a transcript of his speech" and lists the author as "Sundar Pichai CEO of Google and Alphabet." The exact two sentences appear verbatim in the transcript at lines 373-375: "Technology brings incredible benefits, but we must ensure everyone has access to them. We cannot allow the digital divide to become an AI divide." ([blog.google](https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/message-ceo/sundar-pichai-ai-impact-summit-2026/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote verified. The blog.google source returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirmed the official page is the genuine source and quoted the exact text "Technology brings incredible benefits, but we must ensure everyone has access to them. We cannot allow the digital divide to become an AI divide", attributed to Sundar Pichai at the India AI Impact Summit 2026. Corroborated by Business Standard, Outlook Business and Bloomberg. Author attribution correct; year 2026 current. Vote alignment correct: on the statement "The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth", Pichai insists everyone must have access to AI's benefits, so the "for" vote matches. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 22d ago
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