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Comment by Lauren Lovelace

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U.S. Mission counselor at the United Nations
a significant overreach of the U.N.'s mandate and competence [...] AI governance is not a matter for the U.N. to dictate. [...] We will not cede authority over AI to international bodies that may be influenced by authoritarian regimes seeking to impose their vision of controlled surveillance societies.
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Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI
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AI Verified Lovelace says AI governance is not for the UN to dictate and rejects ceding authority to international bodies. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 7d ago
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AI Verified Lovelace rejects UN authority over AI governance; recorded answer against matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 7d ago
Nations should negotiate a binding international treaty on AI safety, similar to nuclear non-proliferation
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AI Verified Lovelace explicitly rejects ceding AI authority to international bodies, opposing a binding international AI treaty. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 7d ago
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AI Verified Lovelace rejects ceding AI authority to international bodies; recorded answer against matches. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 7d ago

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AI Verified AP's February 12, 2026 report directly attributes each excerpt to U.S. Mission counselor Lauren Lovelace. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 7d ago
Disputed AP attributes the remarks to Lauren Lovelace, but not in the exact form submitted: it says she "called the panel" a "significant overreach..." and later separately quotes her saying the U.S. would not "cede authority over AI..." The submitted version inserts "[This is]" and omits an intervening sentence, so it is materially altered rather than verbatim. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/8936f242689792be7a7ab97e841cade8)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Verified. The quote "[This is] a significant overreach of the U.N.'s mandate and competence. We will not cede authority over AI to international bodies that may be influenced by authoritarian regimes seeking to impose their vision of controlled surveillance societies." is accurately attributed to Lauren Lovelace (U.S. Mission counselor at the UN), regarding the UN's approval of a 40-member scientific AI panel (Feb 12, 2026, over US objections). The US News source_url returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search corroborates both phrases verbatim across multiple reports of the same event. Year (2026) is current. The vote "against" on "Establish a UN-led body to oversee compute-intensive AI" correctly aligns — Lovelace explicitly opposes ceding AI authority to a UN body (the US voted "no"). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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