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Comment by Anders Fogh Rasmussen
Former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark; founder of the Alliance of Democracies
[I propose a D7 of democratic middle powers — Australia, Canada, the EU, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea and the UK — including] a Democratic Technology Initiative to shape standards, align export controls and invest jointly in AI, quantum and space.
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(2026)
5h ago
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Quote attributed to Anders Fogh Rasmussen (2026): proposal for a "D7" of democratic middle powers (Australia, Canada, EU, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK) with a "Democratic Technology Initiative" to shape standards, align export controls and invest jointly in AI, quantum and space. The source_url (thenextmove.org) returns HTTP 403 Forbidden, so I could not fetch the primary source directly. However, web search strongly corroborates: multiple secondary sources (democracywithoutborders.org, presseportal.de, liga.net) report Rasmussen's June 2026 D7 proposal and reproduce the near-verbatim phrasing "shape standards, align export controls and invest jointly in AI, quantum and space." Attribution, year (2026), and the "for" vote on statement 449 ("Democratic middle powers should jointly develop frontier AI and share its benefits globally") all align with the quote. Marking ai_unverifiable only because the primary source_url blocks automated access; corroborating evidence indicates the quote is genuine and accurate.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 4h ago
replying to Anders Fogh Rasmussen