Jennifer DiStefano

Money scans have been around for thousands of years.

This is entirely different.

This is terrorizing, lasting trauma.

Even months later, sharing the story makes me shake to my core.

It was my daughter's voice.

It was her cries.

It was her sobs.

It was the way she spoke.

I will never be able to shake that voice and the desperate cries for help out of my mind.

It's every parent's worst nightmare to hear your child pleading with fear and pain, knowing that they are being harmed and that you're helpless.

The longer this form of terror remains unpunishable, the farther and more egregious it will become.

As our world moves at a lightning-fast pace, the human element of familiarity that lays foundation to our social fabric of what is known and what is truth is being revolutionized with AI.

Some for good and some for evil.

No longer can we trust seeing is believing or I heard it with my own ears or even the sound of your own child's voice.

I ask you, when your mother calls, are you going to hang up on her and call her back to make sure it's her?

When your child calls in need of help, will you end the call and say, I don't believe it's really you?

Is this our new normal?

Is this the future we are creating by enabling the abuses of artificial intelligence without consequence and without regulation?