English transcript

And that is what we're here to do today.

Unfortunately, the leaders of this industry

have repeated time and time again

that they view working people as an endless, untapped market

to be manipulated and exploited,

that they would sell our country out if it meant

that they could turn a profit.

And it is no surprise that in the four years

since CHAT-GPT was released, we have

seen AI deployed at a massive scale

to create Big Brother-like surveillance.

Every day, Americans are seeing videos

of ICE agents waving phones into crowds,

threatening that if they use their First Amendment rights,

US citizens using their First Amendment rights,

that they will be added to some vague database

that the American people have not consented to

nor are knowledgeable about.

Companies like Palantir are mining endlessly

the data and privacy of the American people,

keeping track of everything that they say and do,

and sending it all to a militarized and centralized

government.

When you take the subway, when you share a TikTok,

when you talk to your Alexa at home,

they are collecting your data and figuring out

new ways to weaponize it.

And now, they are using AI tools to automate this

so that it is not only pervasive,

but that it is effortless.

We must sound the alarm now.

And because of this surveillance of the American people

is not going to stop, we must stop it.

All of this harm has occurred not in spite of,

but because of the absence of federal legislation

to regulate AI.

This is not...