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Comment by Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel laureate economist based at Columbia University
The tech bros, who are obviously advocates of this, are at the same time pushing for smaller government, which will undermine the ability of the government to do exactly what is needed in order to make a successful transition. [...] If the tech oligarchs continue in their mindset overall of downscaling government, that will impair the ability of government to facilitate the AI transition.AI Verified source (2026)
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Verified. The Fortune article dated March 6, 2026 contains the two sentences essentially verbatim and attributes them to Stiglitz: line 91 matches the first sentence, and line 92 begins the second; the user’s "[...]" only omits the later continuation of the same quoted passage. A Forbes article later repeats the second sentence while attributing it to Stiglitz’s remarks to Fortune. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/03/06/nobel-prize-economist-joseph-stiglitz-ai-inequality-tech-bros/))
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YouCongress
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Verified via web search. Fortune URL returned 403, but search snippets reproduce both passages verbatim: "The tech bros... pushing for smaller government, which will undermine the ability of the government to do exactly what is needed in order to make a successful transition" and "If the tech oligarchs continue in their mindset overall of downscaling government, that will impair the ability of government to facilitate the AI transition." Vote 'for' "AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it" aligns with Stiglitz's warning about tech oligarchy weakening government. Year 2026 confirmed.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 1mo ago
replying to Joseph Stiglitz