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Comment by Alex Zarifis
Lecturer in Information Systems
AI, even more so than the internet, gives power to whoever has the data. If the data is shared, so will the power.AI Verified source (Nov 25, 2025)
1mo ago
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AI Verified
The sentence appears verbatim in republished copies of the article on Tech Xplore and inkl, and both attribute the piece to Alex Zarifis. Tech Xplore dates the article to November 25, 2025 and states it is republished from The Conversation; Zarifis’s own publications page points to the same The Conversation URL for this article. On that basis, the stored quote, author, date, and source URL match the available evidence. ([techxplore.com](https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-tim-berners-lee-state-consumer.pdf))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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The exact wording does appear in a 2025 article about Tim Berners-Lee, but that article is authored by Alex Zarifis (The Conversation; republished by Tech Xplore), and the sentence appears in the article body without quotation marks or attribution as Berners-Lee’s own words. ([techxplore.com](https://techxplore.com/news/2025-11-tim-berners-lee-state-consumer.html)) I did not find a reliable Tim Berners-Lee-authored or interview source with this verbatim wording; in Berners-Lee’s own 2025 Guardian essay he expresses a similar idea in different words about power resting with those who control personal data, which suggests this submission is a paraphrase/misattribution rather than a verified verbatim quote. ([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/28/why-i-gave-the-world-wide-web-away-for-free))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
AI Verified
Verified via web search. The exact quote "AI, even more so than the internet, gives power to whoever has the data. If the data is shared, so will the power" is confirmed as Tim Berners-Lee's statement, originating from his recent book "This is for Everyone" and discussed in The Conversation article (and republished on TechXplore in November 2025). Author attribution (Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web) is correct. Updated year from 2026 to 2025 to reflect actual publication date of the source article (November 2025). Vote "for" on statement 446 ("AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it") aligns with Berners-Lee's warning that AI gives unprecedented power to whoever controls the data — concentrating power in a few companies that could exceed governmental authority. Could not directly fetch theconversation.com (403) but web search confirms quote verbatim.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Alex Zarifis