Congresswoman Sara Jacobs

He's lived it himself.

And we were able to come together and get things done.

And I do think the more young people we get into office, the more people who have different experiences, the more we will be able to address more types of issues.

And we need to fix the system so that it doesn't require members of Congress to have personally experienced something to us actually be able to get something done on it.

So much of our system, right, is not actually designed for what life looks like right now.

And

one of the things i think a lot about is ai and new technologies that's something i do a lot of work on and i actually think one of the things i'm most concerned about in terms of what ai will do is that there will be even more of these decisions made big and small about people's lives that not only will they have no agency and they will have no recourse they will have no way of being like seeing visibility into why that decision was made and i really do worry about what that will mean for how people feel about agency and feel about their sense of belonging

And I think the sense of belonging is so important.

And I really feel we need to build community back up from the ground up, that it really is about how do we humanize these issues?

How do we convene?

How do we build community?

It can be as simple as I tell people all the time, they call me, they're like, I'm so overwhelmed by what's happening in the news.

I'm like, go to a local trash pickup, go clean up a park, go volunteer at a neighborhood school and help paint the playground, right?

Like those are the things we need to do to build community.

And that's what we need to do to build systems that actually encompass all of us as humans and give us ways to have agency in the decisions being made about us, whether that's by nameless, faceless bureaucrats or an AI system or anything else.

I love that.

I'll look forward to getting that book for my niece who turns four in February.

But no, I think that's exactly right.

And it's something I take very seriously as a leader.

That's why I say that a big part of leadership is actually listening.