Jamie Metzl
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And so now even the Trump administration, which has said we're all about acceleration, is now having a conversation about what are the kind of safeguards that we need.
And even though the Trump administration on its first day canceled all of the Biden administration executive orders, which I thought were pretty good, now it's quietly resuscitating some of the organizations created by Biden with changing their names.
And I think we should be...
happy about that because the last thing that we want is to be victimized by the AI companies, like many people.
And I think our kids have been victimized by the social media companies.
And so now is the time when we need to lay guardrails.
And if we don't do it now, it's going to get harder and harder as things play out.
You know, I'm very bipartisan.
I founded a bipartisan foreign policy and national security organization, co-founded, called Partnership for a Secure America.
Whether it's in politics or interacting with AI, critical human thinking, empowering everybody to take a step back from it all and say, who am I?
What do I stand for?
What am I trying to do?
It's so important because if we don't
educate ourselves and our children in order to do that, these manipulations are so powerful.
And it's why I'm such a critic of the social media companies.
They've hired the brain scientists to teach about addiction.
Again, Tristan Harris was one of the Cassandras of all this.
And so we're so addicted.
Even I've had a long attention span since I was a little kid, but I'll be sitting there working.
And then every little bit, I'll just have this need to check my