How Jose M. Plehn Plans to Make AI Accountable Artificial intelligence keeps producing spectacle — chatbots that sound human, models that write code, agents that reason across domains. But beneath the fireworks is the problem that actually determines whether any of this is durable: can we trust the data these systems are built on? For Jose M. Plehn, Ph.D. — an academic turned data entrepreneur — the answer will decide whether AI strengthens democratic institutions or corrodes them. Plehn, the founder of BrightQuery, the creator of OpenData.org, and a board me mber of the AI Alliance, argues that the future of AI won’t be won by whoever stacks the most parameters, but by whoever can prove that their data is real. https://intpolicydigest.org/how - jose - m - plehn - plans - to - make - ai - accountable/