Wes Moore

end up happening, end up determining.

I think the federal government and I think Congress and the White House, they have to take a leadership role and they cannot get steamrolled by Silicon Valley and by these tech entrepreneurs who somehow think that they should be able to write all the rules.

Well, I think people need to be, you know, for states, first of all, for elections, it's states that are running this.

The federal government does not run elections.

And that's one of the reasons why it is so problematic when you're watching what Donald Trump

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're going to see how, particularly for AI, because remember, this is a learning technology.

Agentic AI means it's constantly learning based on information.

And you're going to see how they're going to use that to be able to manipulate who can vote, when they vote, and how they vote.

And so I do think it's important for states to get in the game on this because election security has got to be our top priority as we're thinking about things going into November.

Yeah, well, or I think you need to stop everyone from doing it, right?

I think you're going to have to have a bar as to what information is put out there.

And frankly, not coming from a political background, you kind of see it, right?

You're like, when you're looking at some of the misinformation, right?

that people are utilizing and the lies that they will just allow and tolerate.

It's staggering.

Where, and for many people, that's actually become a business model about how to confuse people.

So real facts and real data and real information can never make it into them because it's a lot easier to introduce lies.

Well, because I think what you have to be able to do is be able to – first of all, you have to be able to be aggressive when it comes to introducing your information and introducing real data and having real platforms for that.