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Comment by Oliver Escobar
Chair of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation at the University of Edinburgh; deliberative democracy scholar and citizens' assembly designer
AI is reshaping public services, democratic institutions and everyday life at a pace that has outrun meaningful public input. The Data and AI Exchange was designed to show that when stakeholders are given the time and structure to deliberate seriously, they produce the kind of grounded, cross-sector thinking that government needs to act with confidence.AI Verified source (2026)
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Verified: the June 5, 2026 Deadline News article contains this wording verbatim in two consecutive quoted sentences and explicitly attributes it to Professor Oliver Escobar. Official University of Edinburgh pages published June 9-10, 2026 repeat the same text and attribution. Note that the article itself is by Tom H. Wilson, but the quote is correctly attributed to Escobar. ([deadlinenews.co.uk](https://www.deadlinenews.co.uk/2026/06/05/uk-government-urged-to-hold-citizens-assembly-on-ai/?amp=1))
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YouCongress
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Source URL (deadlinenews.co.uk) and a parallel article (theedinburghreporter.co.uk) both return HTTP 403 to direct fetches, but a web search independently returned the verbatim quote text — "The Data and AI Exchange was designed to show that when stakeholders are given the time and structure to deliberate seriously, they produce the kind of grounded, cross-sector thinking that government needs to act with confidence" — attributed to Prof. Oliver Escobar (Chair of Public Policy and Democratic Innovation, University of Edinburgh) in coverage of the June 2026 "Governing the Future: Recommendations from the Edinburgh Data and AI Exchange" report. Year (2026) is correct. The quote advocates structured public/stakeholder deliberation on AI, which aligns with a "for" vote on the statement "AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone." Attribution, content, year, and vote direction all confirmed.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 21d ago
replying to Oliver Escobar