Joe Allen

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.

And the second thing they have to explain is if these frontier companies are sincere in wanting to create artificial general and superintelligence and to replace every American worker...

Then David Sachs, Marc Andreessen, Elon Musk, all these guys, they need to explain then why it is that we should buy in, why it is that we should accept any of this, why we shouldn't not just regulate them but completely reject them outright, which half of Americans want to do.

And if they're just lying to gin up stock prices, if all of this is just BS to push forward a product that is not going to live up to any of it, well, then why are people like David Sachs and Ted Cruz and Mark –

Sorry, Steve Scalise, why are they running cover for a bunk product?

It's one or the other.

Either they're building a god and intending to replace every human worker, and along the way seeing children kill themselves and completely dismissing it, or...