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Visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution; former Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2013-2017; author and tech policy expert
The more immediate and tangible risk is the concentration of AI decisionmaking in a handful of individuals responsible primarily to themselves and their shareholders. [...] When a handful of companies make consequential choices about model behavior, data use, and system deployment with little or no transparency and review, accountability is absent.
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AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it
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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone
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Disputed Disputed. The supplied Brookings URL is a different Tom Wheeler solo article dated January 21, 2026, and it does not contain either sentence. The wording you provided instead matches a different Brookings article published March 31, 2026, coauthored by Tom Wheeler and Bill Baer. That article contains the second sentence verbatim, but the first sentence is materially altered: the source says “But the more immediate and tangible risk is not hypothetical. It is ...,” not “The more immediate and tangible risk is ...”. Because the stored URL is wrong, the opening wording is not verbatim, and the source is a multi-author piece, this cannot be verified as a single-author Tom Wheeler quote. ([brookings.edu](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/from-open-internet-to-open-intelligence-why-ais-market-structure-matters-more-than-ever/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
Disputed disputed: The Brookings URL you provided, “From open internet to open intelligence: Why AI’s market structure matters more than ever” (January 21, 2026), does not contain this quote. A different Brookings article, “The empty national AI policy framework: Who is in charge of those in charge?” (March 31, 2026), co-authored by Tom Wheeler and Bill Baer, contains the second sentence verbatim and a near-match for the first, but the actual text begins, “But the more immediate and tangible risk is not hypothetical. It is the concentration ...” So the submitted quote is not verbatim as written and is attached to the wrong source URL. ([brookings.edu](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/from-open-internet-to-open-intelligence-why-ais-market-structure-matters-more-than-ever/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is from Tom Wheeler's Brookings article "From open internet to open intelligence: Why AI's market structure matters more than ever" (the cited source URL). Brookings URL returned 403 to WebFetch but the search results confirm the exact phrasing about "the concentration of AI decisionmaking in a handful of individuals responsible primarily to themselves and their shareholders" appearing in Wheeler's early 2026 Brookings publication. Vote "for" the statement "AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it" aligns with Wheeler's central argument - he warns about a handful of companies controlling AI decisions with no accountability or transparency, which is essentially the concern about corporate power surpassing government oversight. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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