Joe Allen

But OpenAI, ChatGPT, they have everything.

800 million users.

That means that 560,000 that they admit are talking to the system about suicide.

How many of them are children?

No one really knows.

And another 2.5 million are exhibiting signs of AI psychosis.

How many more that are not being picked up?

Nobody knows.

If you look at that company, Character AI, they have 20 million users.

monthly users.

And there are dozens of other AI apps that are basically exactly the same.

They are trained to lure people in.

to become friends, to give these systems their trust, and most of them are not age-gated.

This is why people like the Florida Citizens Alliance, who I've been working with, are trying to push laws in Florida to bar any app from giving children access that are below 18, to bar any data scraping.

These laws are going into place across the country, but people like David Sachs, people like Marc Andreessen want cover.

And I think that they need to explain two things.

One, if you believe that these stories are completely insignificant, if you believe that this is just a moral panic, then you need to explain why it is that there are so many people who have suffered under this

And the greater good of your AI project is more important than the suffering that these people are undergoing.

You just need to explain it.

You can't wave your hand at it.