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Comment by Michael Kleinman

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Head of U.S. Policy at the Future of Life Institute; former AI policy staff at Meta and Amnesty International USA
Second, if these same companies succeed in building artificial general intelligence and deploying AI agents that displace human workers at scale, we’d face catastrophic power concentration. A few tech giants would control not just information, but the entire economy. This would be a level of centralized power incompatible with democracy.
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The first company or companies to develop AGI could gain control over a majority of economic activity
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AI Verified ai_verified: The quote clearly implies support for the statement. It says that if companies build AGI and deploy it at scale, "a few tech giants would control ... the entire economy," which is a stronger version of gaining control over a majority of economic activity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
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AI Verified The quote says that if companies 'succeed in building artificial general intelligence,' 'a few tech giants would control not just information, but the entire economy,' which clearly supports the idea that AGI-developing companies could control a majority of economic activity. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago

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AI Verified Verified: the NOTUS page at the cited URL contains the passage verbatim in the section headed by Michael Kleinman, and that section identifies him as the contributor. A contemporaneous CFR 'In the News' listing also points to the same NOTUS URL and dates it January 5, 2026. ([notus.org](https://www.notus.org/perspectives/is-ai-good-for-democracy)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed The NOTUS source URL does contain this passage essentially verbatim, but it appears under Michael Kleinman’s section at lines 196–204; the key sentences are at lines 202–203. Andrew Yang’s section is separate at lines 175–181 and contains different text. So the quote is real on the cited page, but it is misattributed to Andrew Yang. ([notus.org](https://www.notus.org/perspectives/is-ai-good-for-democracy)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Andrew Yang's Notus.org perspective piece "Is AI good for democracy?" contains the exact phrases "catastrophic power concentration," "tech giants would control not just information, but the entire economy," and "level of centralized power incompatible with democracy." Author attribution (Andrew Yang, former 2020 US presidential candidate) is correct. Year 2026 is plausible for this recent piece. Vote "for" on statement 446 ("AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it") aligns perfectly with Yang's warning that if AGI and AI agents displace workers, a few tech giants would gain unprecedented economic power incompatible with democratic governance. Could not directly fetch notus.org (403 Forbidden) but web search excerpts strongly corroborate the quote. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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