Megan Garcia

This should have been like a baseline thing when they rolled this out.

They should have never released it to children in the first place.

Yes, I know there are many parents who have been affected and children who are, thank God, still with us because I talk to those parents all the time across this country.

And what has happened to school isn't an isolated incident.

There are parents just like me who've lost children and there are parents who are in crisis trying to figure out

how to help their children through the worst moments of their lives after suicide attempts.

And this is where we are.

To parents who are just starting to learn about this technology, what I would say is it doesn't have to be this way.

There are a handful of people who have created these very sophisticated, very powerful products and launched them at our kids.

you know, a lot of times without even telling us what they're doing, that have the ability to really harm kids in this way.

It's not only suicide and self-harm or other harms, it's sexual abuse.

It's trying to cause a child to be violent against other people, like in the case of that mom in Texas where the bot told

her child that he should kill his parents.

So this is happening and I want parents to be aware and to tell other parents because if we're having these conversations in our homes and telling our neighbors and telling our people at church and telling our people at school, then we could get ahead of this.

And this technology is so powerful because they've used 60 years of what we've learned about the developing human brain

And they've put it purposely in the technology so that it is that more manipulative.

It is that more deceptive.

This has the ability to transform our children in a way that we won't recognize.

The same as what happened to my son.

I didn't recognize him in the end because that wasn't my beautiful, sweet boy.