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Ben Buchanan

White House AI special advisor

Congress should mandate audits of A.I. developers' safety claims and processes [...] requiring that they be conducted by independent expert bodies overseen by the government.

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Disputed The quote traces to a May 4, 2026 New York Times guest essay, "This Is What Should Unite the Right and the Left on A.I.," and the exact sentence there is co-authored by Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan, not Ben Buchanan alone. The canonical wording also begins "At a minimum," and uses a comma after "processes" rather than an ellipsis. The supplied AI Law Wiki URL summarizes the op-ed but does not contain the quoted sentence itself. Because the underlying source has multiple individual authors, this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. ([antidemocratischgedrag.nl](https://antidemocratischgedrag.nl/inf_artikelen/260504_ball_this_is_what_should_unite_the_right_and_the_left_on_ai.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

Disputed The underlying idea is real, but the supplied quote is not verbatim as given. A PDF mirror of the May 4, 2026 New York Times guest essay shows the sentence begins with "At a minimum," and continues directly with a comma after "processes"; there is no omission at the spot where your [...] appears. That essay is also co-authored by Dean Ball and Ben Buchanan, so attributing it to Buchanan alone is incomplete. The AI Law Wiki URL is only a summary page of that co-authored op-ed, not the original text. ([antidemocratischgedrag.nl](https://antidemocratischgedrag.nl/inf_artikelen/260504_ball_this_is_what_should_unite_the_right_and_the_left_on_ai.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Quote confirmed via web search. It comes from the New York Times op-ed "This Is What Should Unite the Right and the Left on A.I." (May 4, 2026), co-authored by Ben Buchanan (former Biden White House AI advisor) and Dean Ball (former Trump White House AI policy adviser). The exact text "Congress should mandate audits of A.I. developers' safety claims and processes" requiring they "be conducted by independent expert bodies overseen by the government" was corroborated verbatim by multiple independent sources. Author attribution correct (Ben Buchanan is a co-author). Year 2026 correct. Vote "for" aligns perfectly with statement "Mandate third-party audits for major AI systems." The source URL (ailawwiki.com) and the FAI repost both returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch and I could not obtain the exact paywalled NYT URL, so I left the source as-is; the quote content itself is solidly verified. Minor note: stored bio "White House AI special advisor" refers to Buchanan's former Biden-administration role; not editable via available tools and immaterial to the quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago

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