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Comment by Anu Bradford
Columbia Law School professor; author of The Brussels Effect and Digital Empires
I have reservations about the American market-driven model. It is a techno-optimist, techno-libertarian model, and I think it has generated many benefits. But at the same time, I don’t believe we should outsource the governance of technology to the tech companies themselves. They don’t wake up in the morning thinking, what can I do today to advance public interest? What can I do for democracy?AI Verified source (May 11, 2026)
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AI Verified
The quote is supported as authentic in the cited source: the American Bazaar article published May 11, 2026 contains this passage verbatim in quotation marks and attributes it to Anu Bradford (see the article’s date/byline at line 29 and the quoted passage at line 39). A separate India AI Impact Summit transcript also independently matches key wording about not outsourcing AI governance to tech companies and describes the U.S. approach as a market-driven, techno-libertarian/techno-optimist model, which supports the attribution. I found no evidence that the stored author, date, source URL, or quote text need correction.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 16d ago
Disputed
The source article dated May 11, 2026 does attribute to Anu Bradford the direct quote ending, "What can I do for democracy?" But the next sentence is not presented as her exact words; the article switches to narration: "She believes that the companies think about how to grow." Because the submitted version turns that paraphrase into a direct quotation ("The companies think about how to grow."), the quote as given is not fully verbatim and is materially altered. ([americanbazaaronline.com](https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/05/11/anu-bradford-on-why-india-should-build-a-hybrid-ai-governance-model/))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Quote confirmed via web search. Anu Bradford (Columbia Law School professor, author of Digital Empires) is widely quoted with this exact wording about not outsourcing technology governance to tech companies, which aligns with her published views. The source_url returned 403, but the content was independently confirmed via web search referencing the same American Bazaar article (May 2026). The "for" vote on "AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it" aligns: she is warning about exactly that risk. Year 2026 is current.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to Anu Bradford