oversight
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On Sunday, Amodei reiterated the need for government oversight of AI.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
There is something genuinely disorienting about reading all of this in a Senate oversight letter and arriving at Taco Bell as the comparatively lucid party.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Such questions—from other ordinary people and lawmakers—came again and again this week to the New Jersey Democrat, who has introduced bills to increase oversight of the technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
Without oversight of the land, protecting the chi has been an upstream battle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
In the meantime, through an oversight that José Arcadio Buendía never forgave himself for, the candy animals made in the house were still being sold in the town.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But many cases come down to small oversights — and the people caught off guard are often the ones who thought they had it taken care of.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
Alejandro, the gas station attendant, said he felt there were "too few oversights" of mining projects.
From Barron's ● May 23, 2026
The Justice Department scrambled to fix the oversights.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
Mistakes or oversights in DOT regulations could lead to lawsuits or even injuries and deaths in the transportation system.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
Sophisticated printed illustrations based on perspective drawings thus turned anatomy into a progressive science, where each generation of anatomists was able to identify mistakes and oversights in the work of their predecessors.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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