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In order for our free market to function in the public interest, the companies amassing wealth and profiting from AI must be forced to take ownership of, and internalize, these costs.
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AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models
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AI Unverifiable The quote suggests AI companies should bear some costs, but it does not explicitly identify those costs as harms caused by their deployed models; "these costs" is context-dependent. So it is too ambiguous to verify the full statement exactly. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
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AI Verified The sentence appears verbatim at the provided Schneier URL and on Schneier’s essays page for the March 24, 2026 piece "As the US Midterms Approach, AI Is Going to Emerge as a Key Issue Concerning Voters." The Guardian version of that same article is bylined "Nathan E Sanders and Bruce Schneier," so the quote is authentic and attributable to Bruce Schneier as a co-author. ([schneier.com](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/as-the-us-midterms-approach-ai-is-going-to-emerge-as-a-key-issue-concerning-voters.html)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
AI Verified Quote verified via web search (schneier.com returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but search results reproduce the wording verbatim from Bruce Schneier's own March 2026 "Schneier on Security" post "As the US Midterms Approach, AI Is Going to Emerge as a Key Issue" — the primary source). Confirmed: "In order for our free market to function in the public interest, the companies amassing wealth and profiting from AI must be forced to take ownership of, and internalize, these costs." Year 2026 correct, author attribution confirmed. Vote alignment: Schneier argues AI companies should be forced to internalize the costs/harms of their products rather than externalize them, directly consistent with his "for" vote on "AI companies should be liable for harms caused by their deployed models." · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 26d ago
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