Megan Garcia

And if we can't stop this, what this technology has the ability to do is to

entire generation of our kids are going to be susceptible to what those companies are telling them and manipulating them into doing.

So that means their religion, their political experience, their commerce, everything is at risk.

And we as parents should be the authority on that.

But these companies have become so powerful and technology is so powerful that it's supplanting our relationships with our children.

Thank you.

Yes, in closing, I'd like to say that we're at a very crucial inflection point where we could still fix this.

We're about 15 years too late for social media, but AI is new and it's developing so fast, but we can pass regulation to protect our children at both the state and federal level.

Right now, there is no federal regulation, so the states are stepping up to try to

protect their constituents.

And that's their job, right?

But if we have an AI moratorium or an executive order that blocks states from doing those things, then this generation is at the mercy of the corporations.

They'll be left vulnerable.

Our children will be vulnerable.

And in my mind,

to allow our children to continue to be the sacrifice so that those corporations can keep making millions and millions of dollars and billions of dollars and acquire more and more power.

To me, I don't think any American family is willing to do that.

And those in leadership who got into leadership because they want to protect us and they want to make our lives better.

And they have the real power to be able to stop this stuff from happening by passing meaningful legislation.

So I and I do believe, like, honestly, in my heart, believe that if we don't get this right and do this right by our children, that as a nation, we're going to be judged for this.