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Comment by Jeffrey Sachs

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American economist
Shape the changes ahead so that AI fulfills its vast potential to raise living standards and wellbeing, not for a few, but for all parts of society and all regions of the world.
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AI Verified The quote is authentic and verbatim: it appears in Jeffrey Sachs’s FII Institute op-ed/publication "AI AND THE WORLD ECONOMY," published July 15, 2024, with the exact wording "We need to shape the changes ahead so that AI fulfills its vast potential to raise living standards and wellbeing, not for a few, but for all parts of society and all regions of the world." The supplied March 24, 2026 press page about EMDEs does not contain that sentence, so the quote is real and correctly attributed to Sachs, but the provided year/source page is not the original location. ([fii-institute.org](https://fii-institute.org/publication/ai-and-the-world-economy/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Jeffrey Sachs (2026). The source_url is the FII Institute press release for the report "AI Is Rewriting the Growth Model for Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs)," which was authored by Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs and released at FII PRIORITY Miami in March 2026. Direct fetch returned HTTP 403, but web search confirmed (1) the quoted text — AI should "raise living standards and wellbeing, not for a few, but for all parts of society and all regions of the world" — appears in FII Institute material, and (2) Sachs is the report's author, whose stated thesis is that AI's benefits must produce "shared prosperity" through inclusive policies. Attribution is appropriate. Year 2026 is current. Vote "for" on "The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" aligns strongly — the quote explicitly calls for AI's gains to reach all of society and all regions of the world, not just a few. Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 22d ago
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