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Comment by Ben Harack
Oxford Martin AI governance researcher
For example, preventing war might require credible evidence that civilian AI resources are not being militarized, or that very specific kinds of AI—such as superintelligence—are not being built. [...] Industry-wide safety and security rules can mitigate these risks, but ensuring a level playing field would require robust evidence of compliance—acquired through verification—so that no one can secretly violate the rules to gain competitive advantage. So if we want to build a brighter future with AI while guarding against known problems, we must be able to build and deploy AI systems that are verifiable.AI Verified source (Apr 15, 2026)
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AI Verified
Verified: the Lawfare article “AI Verification: Infrastructure for Prosperity, Governance, and Peace” lists Ben Harack as the sole author and shows a publication date of April 15, 2026; the quoted sentences appear verbatim in the source at lines 97, 99, and 100, and the omitted middle text is consistent with the supplied [...]. ([lawfaremedia.org](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-verification--infrastructure-for-prosperity--governance--and-peace))
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YouCongress
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Disputed: the Lawfare source is a real 2026 article by Ben Harack, but the provided text is not one verbatim continuous passage. In the article, the first sentence appears at line 97, then an intervening sentence/paragraph beginning “Safety is also desirable...” appears at line 98 before the later sentences at lines 99-100. So the quote is stitched together without an ellipsis, even though the attribution and source are otherwise correct. ([lawfaremedia.org](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-verification--infrastructure-for-prosperity--governance--and-peace))
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YouCongress
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· 14d ago
AI Verified
Verified. The source_url (lawfaremedia.org/article/ai-verification--infrastructure-for-prosperity--governance--and-peace) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the article and quote. The article "AI Verification: Infrastructure for Prosperity, Governance, and Peace" (Lawfare, April 2026) is authored by Ben Harack, DPhil Affiliate with the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative — author attribution correct. The quoted passages were confirmed: "preventing war might require credible evidence that civilian AI resources are not being militarized" and the closing "So if we want to build a brighter future with AI... we must be able to build and deploy AI systems that are verifiable." Year 2026 correct. The vote "for" aligns with statement 451 ("Governments and labs should build the capability for a global slowdown of frontier AI development in case it's needed"): Harack explicitly argues for building verification capability so that compliance can be demonstrated — including credible evidence that "very specific kinds of AI—such as superintelligence—are not being built" — which is precisely the kind of capability needed to make a coordinated slowdown enforceable, a clearly supportive (for) stance.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
replying to Ben Harack