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Comment by Helen Toner
Interim Executive Director at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET); former OpenAI board member
It's truly unprecedented the mismatch between how strategically important this technology is and how little involvement government has in developing it. [...] I think it is very important that the U.S. AI sector remains ahead of the Chinese AI sector, but if that's at the expense of AI overrunning the entire planet, then that hasn't benefitted us.
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(2026)
1mo ago
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Quote verified via web search (cset.georgetown.edu returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but search results reproduce both sentences verbatim from Helen Toner's 22 Apr 2026 Senate Judiciary testimony, covered on CSET's own site — the primary source). Confirmed: "it's truly unprecedented the mismatch between how strategically important this technology is and how little involvement government has in developing it" and "I think it is very important that the U.S. AI sector remains ahead of the Chinese AI sector, but if that's at the expense of AI overrunning the entire planet, then that hasn't benefitted us." Year 2026 correct, author attribution confirmed. Vote alignment: her "for" vote on "Require AI labs to publish safety evaluations before deploying frontier models" is consistent with her well-documented pro-oversight, safety-over-race stance reflected in the quote, though the quote speaks to government involvement and safety priorities broadly rather than to publishing safety evaluations specifically.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 18d ago
replying to Helen Toner