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Understand What's at Stake
AI is already changing jobs, childhood, communities, and the future people thought they could count on. Watch these short videos to see what’s happening, why it matters, and what you can do next.
Jobs and Economic Security
AI is beginning to change the American workforce, and workers can feel it. Companies are already using AI to automate tasks across technology, finance, law, education, and creative fields.
Workers aren’t asking to stop this technology; they’re asking to have a say in how it reshapes their livelihoods. That means transparency about how AI is used in the workplace, a real voice for the people affected, and a pace of change that lets families and communities adjust. AI should serve the people who power our economy. Americans deserve to share in what it creates.
National Security
AI built on American technology should not end up arming our adversaries. The same advanced chips and systems that power American innovation can be diverted to hostile governments, fueling AI-driven weapons, cyberattacks, and surveillance that threaten U.S. interests and democratic values.
Maintaining American leadership takes targeted, enforceable controls: limiting adversary access to our most advanced chips, closing the loopholes that let restricted exports slip through, and securing supply chains against theft and espionage. The goal is calibration: controls strong enough to protect national security, precise enough to keep American companies competitive and our alliances intact.
Elections and Democracy
AI lets political content be created, personalized, and distributed at a scale we’ve never seen. AI-generated articles, comments, images, audio, and video can imitate real citizens, candidates, and journalists; when voters can’t tell an authentic voice from a synthetic one, trust in elections and honest debate erodes.
Protecting democracy doesn’t mean banning AI. It means accountability: the people and companies deploying these systems should answer for how they’re used. Political ads and other influential AI-generated content should be clearly labeled, deceptive bots and deepfakes should face real consequences, and companies should answer when their systems power mass impersonation or deception. Voters deserve reliable ways to check where political content comes from and to flag fakes fast. In a democracy, the voices at the center of civic life should be human ones.
Human Control
AI should serve people; it shouldn’t replace human judgment or absorb human responsibility. AI systems are products, not persons. They shouldn’t be granted legal rights or placed in roles where accountability quietly shifts from a person to a machine. When AI shapes decisions about someone’s job, health, finances, or freedom, real people and institutions have to stay answerable for the outcome.
Human control also means safeguards across a system’s life cycle. Powerful models should be tested before release, independently evaluated for dangerous or unreliable behavior, and monitored once they’re in the world, with clear ways for a human to step in. People on the receiving end of an automated decision deserve an explanation, a review, and a real path to appeal.
Human Creativity
AI can genuinely help people create: exploring ideas, organizing research, clearing away busywork. The concern is what happens when help slides into wholesale substitution, and when the work that trains these systems is taken without permission.
This comes down to consent and compensation. For many writers, musicians, illustrators, and journalists, it’s a question of livelihood: their work is used to train commercial AI systems without consent, credit, licensing, or pay, and the resulting tools can then compete against them. People deserve transparency about what goes into training data and real protections for the creators whose work makes these systems possible. AI should be a tool that expands human creativity, not one that quietly runs on it without asking.
Child Safety
AI is moving faster than parents can track, and families keep asking a simple question: who’s making sure our kids are safe? Parenting through the rise of social media was hard enough; AI’s speed and unpredictability raise the stakes.
Today’s systems can simulate friendships, generate explicit content, and interact with minors in ways that were unthinkable a few years ago. Parents deserve clear safeguards so these products aren’t exploiting children’s vulnerabilities or exposing them to harm. When new risks to kids emerge, states have always been first to respond, and they should be free to act; the companies that build these systems should be accountable for keeping children safe.
Data Centers
AI data centers are being built in communities across America, often before residents understand the full cost. These massive facilities can consume enormous amounts of electricity and water, strain local infrastructure, and leave families paying higher utility bills.
Big Tech should not get a blank check to reshape a community behind closed doors. Residents deserve transparency, a real voice in the process, and enforceable commitments before construction begins. AI development should benefit the people and communities that make it possible—not leave them carrying the costs.
Education
Education
AI is already changing how students learn, how teachers teach, and how young people understand the world. Used responsibly, it could give educators useful tools and help students get more individualized support. Used carelessly, it could weaken critical-thinking skills, expose children’s personal information, enable cheating, and replace meaningful human instruction with automated answers.
Parents, teachers, and local communities—not Silicon Valley—should decide how AI enters the classroom. Schools need clear safeguards that protect children, preserve academic integrity, and ensure technology supports teachers rather than replacing them.
Civil Liberties
AI gives governments and corporations unprecedented power to collect information, monitor behavior, profile individuals, and make decisions that can affect a person’s freedom and future. Without strong safeguards, Americans could be watched, judged, or denied opportunities by systems they cannot see, question, or hold accountable.
Our constitutional rights should not disappear because a decision was made by an algorithm. Americans deserve privacy, due process, transparency, and a real human being responsible for consequential decisions. Innovation should strengthen human freedom—not give powerful institutions more control with less accountability.
Tell Your Story
AI isn’t just a technical issue — it’s already affecting real people in real ways.
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