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Joe Perticone

Capitol Hill reporter, The Bulwark.

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DI has documented statements by Joe Perticone on Artificial Intelligence, Law Enforcement, and U.S. Politics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Joe Perticone

Joe Perticone

Role at the time: Capitol Hill reporter, The Bulwark

Mixed or conditional

Statement summary

Joe Perticone questioned whether AI companies' calls for regulation reflect genuine safety concern or regulatory capture.

“You should be very skeptical of CEOs begging "please regulate us."”
Read the original text (opens in a new tab)AI CEOs Would Very Much Like Congress to Save the World (The Bulwark)
Why we used this label

Perticone questions whether AI CEOs' calls for regulation are genuine without directly taking a position for or against safeguards themselves -- matching the closest precedent in this case, Kolvet's statement calling industry regulatory lobbying a potential 'Trojan horse,' also classified “Mixed or conditional” rather than “Challenged the characterization”.

Read statementShould Washington impose stronger safeguards on frontier AI?

Joe Perticone

Role at the time: Capitol Hill reporter, The Bulwark

Condemned

Statement summary

Joe Perticone said FBI hiring standards are "falling by the wayside" and questioned whether the change attracts the right recruits.

“Standards and practices are kind of falling by the wayside. It's very apparent at the FBI... Maybe lowering standards results in a recruitment bump, but those probably aren't the people you want to have.”
Watch the original video (opens in a new tab)Bulwark panel on the FBI hiring-standards change
Why we used this label

Perticone says hiring standards are "falling by the wayside" and questions whether a resulting recruitment bump is worth it, an express condemnation of the policy.

Read statementKash Patel defends FBI’s removal of automatic hiring disqualifiers for bestiality, prostitution, and employee theft

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