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Associate Director for Economic Policy and AI at IPPR (Institute for Public Policy Research); previously led the Bank of England's work on AI regulation
We don't have to be passengers in the AI revolution, we can be drivers. Right now, policy is focused on speeding up AI adoption, but not on where it's taking us. Without a clearer direction, we risk ending up with more inequality, more concentrated power, and benefits that never reach most people.
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AI Verified The IPPR press story dated 16 Apr 2026 states "Carsten Jung, associate director at IPPR, said:" and then gives the same three-sentence quotation as the one submitted, matching verbatim aside from normal curly punctuation/apostrophe differences. That confirms the quote is real, correctly attributed to Carsten Jung, and present at the cited source. ([ippr.org](https://www.ippr.org/media-office/government-risks-techlash-unless-it-shows-who-benefits-from-ai-ippr-warns)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote confirmed via web search of IPPR's April 2026 report/press release (ippr.org, the source URL — primary source). The page returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but the passages "We don't have to be passengers in the AI revolution, we can be drivers" and "Without a clearer direction, we risk ending up with more inequality, more concentrated power, and benefits that never reach most people" were corroborated verbatim and attributed to Carsten Jung. Author attribution correct (IPPR Associate Director for Economic Policy and AI). Year 2026 correct. Vote "for" aligns with statement "The economic gains from frontier AI should be shared with every person on Earth" — Jung explicitly argues against AI benefits being concentrated and never reaching most people, advocating broad distribution of AI's gains. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 26d ago
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