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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031
AI Incident Database · WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2026
Philip Morris Paid AI to Generate Public Opposition to EU Tobacco Regulations

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT
The public comments were submitted by the public in the sense that they were submitted. Opposition was documented, logged, and entered into the regulatory record. The regulation process proceeded on the assumption that the inputs were what they appeared to be. They were not. Someone signed off on this. Adequate has their name.
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