We can't find the internet
Attempting to reconnect
Something went wrong!
Hang in there while we get back on track
Comment by Gordon LaForge
Senior Policy Analyst at New America; co-Director of People, State and Planet initiative; researcher on AI geopolitics and democracy
It would be a distributed or collaborative sovereignty in which AI infrastructure, capabilities, and governance decisionmaking are more dispersed and in which communities have meaningful choice, what Akash Kapur calls “digital agency.” [...] Whatever the exact arrangement, for middle powers, the logic of banding together is undeniably compelling at a time of escalating great power coercion.AI Verified source (Mar 11, 2026)
1mo ago
Quote authenticity verification history
Report thisQuote authenticity comments
AI Verified
Verified: the supplied New America URL contains the quoted first sentence and later the quoted closing sentence, with only intervening text omitted by [...]; the page credits Gordon LaForge and dates the piece Mar. 11, 2026. The stored author, date, source URL, and content all match. ([newamerica.org](https://www.newamerica.org/insights/from-bletchley-to-bharat-can-middle-powers-chart-a-third-way-in-ai/))
·
YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
Disputed
The New America page at the cited URL is a March 11, 2026 article by Gordon LaForge, and it does contain both quoted sentences verbatim. However, in the source the sentence beginning “It would be a distributed or collaborative sovereignty...” appears earlier, while “for middle powers, the logic of banding together...” appears later; the submitted quote reverses their order, so it is not a faithful verbatim excerpt with ellipsis. ([newamerica.org](https://www.newamerica.org/insights/from-bletchley-to-bharat-can-middle-powers-chart-a-third-way-in-ai/))
·
YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
AI Verified
Verified via web search. The New America article "From Bletchley to Bharat: Can Middle Powers Chart a Third Way in AI?" (also published as "Is There a Third Way for AI, Led by the World's Middle Powers?") by Gordon LaForge contains both quoted passages. The phrases about middle powers "banding together" amid "escalating great power coercion" and "distributed or collaborative sovereignty" with AI infrastructure/capabilities/governance "more dispersed" and communities having "meaningful choice" are corroborated. Author attribution to LaForge (Senior Policy Analyst at New America, co-Director of People, State and Planet initiative) is correct. Year 2026 is plausible (article published around the India AI Impact Summit Feb 2026). Vote "for" on statement 449 ("Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally") aligns perfectly with LaForge's central thesis. Could not directly fetch newamerica.org (403) but web search excerpts corroborate.
·
Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Gordon LaForge