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Comment by Daron Acemoglu
Nobel laureate economist; MIT Institute Professor; author of Power and Progress
As AI reorders economies and concentrates power in fewer and fewer hands, the question is no longer whether democracy needs saving, but whether we can save it in time.Disputed source (2026)
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The exact sentence does appear verbatim at the supplied Project Syndicate URL, but it is in the article’s standfirst/summary, not shown as a spoken line by Daron Acemoglu. The page is dated March 6, 2026 and credited to “Michael J. Sandel interviewed by Daron Acemoglu,” so this is not a verifiable single-author Daron Acemoglu quote. ([project-syndicate.org](https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/saving-democracy-in-the-age-of-ai-by-daron-acemoglu-and-michael-j-sandel-2026-03))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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The sentence does appear verbatim on the Project Syndicate page dated March 6, 2026, but there it appears as the article’s standfirst/summary under the headline "Reclaiming Democracy From the Market," while the byline reads "Michael J. Sandel interviewed by Daron Acemoglu." I did not find a reliable source that attributes that exact wording as a spoken or written quotation by Daron Acemoglu alone, so this is best treated as a misattributed quote rather than a verified Acemoglu quotation. ([project-syndicate.org](https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/saving-democracy-in-the-age-of-ai-by-daron-acemoglu-and-michael-j-sandel-2026-03?redirect=%2Fcommentary%2Fstick-to-the-resolution-2011-03&trigger=ArticlePromo&url=stick-to-the-resolution-2011-03))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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Source URL (project-syndicate.org) blocks automated access (HTTP 403). Web search confirms the article "Reclaiming Democracy From the Market" by Daron Acemoglu and Michael J. Sandel was published on Project Syndicate in March 2026 (also available on their Substack). Search results confirm the phrase "whether we can save it in time" and the theme of AI concentrating power threatening democracy. Fortune coverage also confirms Acemoglu's broader warnings about AI inequality and democracy. Vote direction "for" is correct. The quote is relevant to statement 446. Year 2026 is correct. However, the source URL could not be directly verified to contain the exact quote text.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
AI Unverifiable
Quote attributed to Daron Acemoglu from a March 2026 Project Syndicate article co-authored with Michael J. Sandel titled "Reclaiming Democracy From the Market." Web search confirms the article opens with "As AI reorders economies and concentrates power in fewer and fewer hands, the question is no longer whether democracy needs saving, but whether we can save it in time." The source URL (project-syndicate.org) returned HTTP 403. Note: this appears to be the article's framing language/subtitle rather than a direct Acemoglu quote, though the article is co-authored by him. Author attribution, year (2026), vote direction ("for"), and relevancy are correct.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
replying to Daron Acemoglu