# Others Have Data but Oxford Has the Authority to Make It Trusted by Oxford Languages > “Others have data. We have the authority to make it trusted.” > **— Oxford Languages**, *Academic Data for AI, Oxford University Press, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Primary source:** Oxford Languages (Oxford University Press), [*Academic Data for AI*](https://languages.oup.com/solutions/academic-data-for-ai/), product page headline, accessed September 22, 2026. - **Exact original:** “Others have data. We have the authority to make it trusted.” No editorial change. - **Context:** The page offers training data from books, journals, bibliographic collections and multilingual sources “engineered for seamless integration into large-scale AI pipelines.” A companion page, [*Language Data for AI*](https://languages.oup.com/solutions/language-data-for-ai/), markets a “20-billion-word collection” for large-language-model training, semantic search, conversational AI, machine translation, text classification and content moderation. - **Attribution:** The line is corporate marketing copy without an individual author; Oxford Languages, the Oxford University Press division that publishes it, is the attributed author. - **Article use:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] reads the line as the machine-age restatement of the 1916 “Imperial Asset” pamphlet. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban|The Real No Kings Moment and Who Wrote the Super-intelligence Ban]] - **Article:** [[articles/Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence|Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Oxford Languages|Oxford Languages]] - [[wiki/Oxford English Dictionary|Oxford English Dictionary]] - [[wiki/Machine English|Machine English]] - [[wiki/Generative Canon|Generative Canon]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Others have data. We have the authority to make it trusted.” — Oxford Languages, Academic Data for AI, Oxford University Press, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-oxford-languages-authority-to-make-data-trusted ```