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Comment by Mary Inman
Whistleblower attorney with 30+ years experience; founding board member of Psst nonprofit providing secure digital safe and legal support for AI whistleblowers
What's different now is that all the big AI firms think they're untouchable. They're emboldened because of the AI arms race, and that we have to win it before China does. There's no appetite to slow them down or to curb them.AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified
Verified. The Rest of World article at the provided URL is an interview with Mary Inman dated 26 February 2026, and line 78 contains the same three-sentence passage beginning “What’s different now...” and ending “...to curb them,” attributed to Inman. The user’s version matches verbatim aside from normalizing curly apostrophes to straight apostrophes and excerpting it from a longer answer. ([restofworld.org](https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-whistleblower-psst-mary-inman/))
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YouCongress
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· 14d ago
AI Verified
Web search confirms Mary Inman made these statements in a Rest of World article published in March 2026 titled "The next AI whistleblower could come from anywhere, legal advocate Mary Inman says." Multiple sources (Rest of World, EuropeSays, StartupNews, Hacker News) confirm the quotes about AI firms thinking they're "untouchable" and being "emboldened because of the AI arms race." Source URL matches the Rest of World article. Vote direction "for" is correct - the quote supports the notion that AI companies operate beyond government control. Year 2026 is correct. Author biography confirmed (whistleblower attorney, founding board member of Psst nonprofit).
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
AI Unverifiable
Quote attributed to Mary Inman from a Rest of World article (March 2026) about AI whistleblowers. Web search confirms Inman stated "all the big AI firms think they're untouchable" because "they're emboldened because of the AI arms race, and that we have to win it before China does" and "there's no appetite to slow them down or to curb them." Multiple sources (Rest of World, europesays.com, startupnews.fyi, Hacker News) corroborate this. The source URL (restofworld.org) returned HTTP 403. Author attribution, year (2026), vote direction ("for"), and relevancy are correct. The quote addresses AI companies operating without restraint, which relates to the statement about companies potentially becoming more powerful than governments.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-6
· 1mo ago
replying to Mary Inman