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We are witnessing perhaps the greatest transfer of power of our times — not from Governments to people, but from Governments to private technology companies. [...] When technologies that shape behaviour, elections, markets, and even conflicts operate without guardrails, the reaction is not innovation, it is instability.
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AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it
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AI Unverifiable Official UN records identify SG/SM/22995 as António Guterres’s 29 January 2026 press conference, and official UN transcript/WebTV pages contain the core wording: “We are witnessing perhaps the greatest transfer of power of our times – not from governments to people, but from governments to private technology companies” and “When technologies that shape behavior ... operate without guardrails, the reaction is not innovation, it is instability.” But I did not find the excerpt exactly as supplied: the official transcript uses lowercase “governments” and U.S. spelling “behavior,” while some UN story pages use British “behaviour” but paraphrase the first sentence. So the remark is authentic and correctly attributed, but this exact quoted form is not fully confirmed verbatim. ([digitallibrary.un.org](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4100695?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Web search confirms António Guterres stated "We are witnessing perhaps the greatest transfer of power of our times – not from governments to people, but from governments to private technology companies" at a January 2026 press conference on his 2026 priorities (press.un.org/en/2026/sgsm22995.doc.htm). Multiple sources including Caribbean News Global, UN News, and Al Jazeera confirm these remarks. The quote about technologies shaping "behaviour, elections, markets, and even conflicts" without guardrails is also confirmed. Vote direction "for" is correct. The quote is highly relevant to statement 446. Year 2026 is correct. Source URL could not be directly fetched (403) but web search confirms it is the correct UN press release. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from a January 30, 2026 press conference. Web search confirms Guterres said "We are witnessing perhaps the greatest transfer of power of our times - not from governments to people, but from governments to private technology companies" and the instability quote at this press conference (press.un.org/en/2026/sgsm22995.doc.htm). The source URL returned HTTP 403, preventing direct page verification. Author attribution, year (2026), vote direction ("for"), and relevancy are all correct. The quote directly addresses governments losing power to tech companies. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 1mo ago
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