On Wednesday, July 23, only one day before Congress entered its annual August recess, Senator Josh Hawley, referred to by Steve Bannon as America’s lone populist Senator, joined Bannon’s WarRoom to discuss liberating Americans from a possible imminent future as slaves to AI and big tech companies.
“We need to give every individual American and every American worker the right to protect their own personal information,” Senator Hawley told Bannon. “We are talking about your name, your image, and your likeness. If AI wants to train their models on you, they should get your permission, and compensate you for it.”
“Right now, the attitude is smash and grab. Right now, AI says, ‘I’m going to take everything you posted on Facebook. I’m going to take everything you put up on X.’”
“Let’s say you’re a creator—a songwriter, or a novelist—AI’s going to take all of that work. They are not going to ask you, nor compensate you. That needs to change. My bottom line: Is AI going to work for people? Or are people going to work for AI?”
“I know all the big companies want us all to work for them, and to be their digital slaves. No, thanks. We need to put the American people, the American worker first—we need to adopt an America First approach,” Senator Hawley said.
Watch Senator Hawley stand up for individual liberty over big tech collectivism, here.
Bannon prompted Senator Hawley on the significance of codifying legislation that protects individual liberties from a soulless, alternative life in slavery to Artificial Intelligence.
“”We need to give every individual American the right to protect their data, and to protect their jobs. We need to give the American people enforceable rights,” Senator Hawley said.
“Right now, AI doesn’t care. Facebook doesn’t care. Google doesn’t care. They come and they scrape all information. They train their systems on it.”
“They take your pictures of your kids—you put pictures of your kids up on Facebook, and they train their models to whatever they want with them. You can’t protect yourself.”
“This is the time. If we don’t do this now—you look at what those tech companies tried to do with the Big, Beautiful Bill where they tried to slip in a ten-year moratorium on any kind of AI guardrails. We got that out of there, but it was a tooth and nail fight,” Senator Hawley said.
Americans can count their blessings that US Congress Republicans still favor individual liberties over artificial intelligence—with Senator Hawley serving as the ideal public spokesperson.
Senator Hawley is clearly guided by his populist vision in saving humanity from their greatest looming existential threat.
“We have got to put power into the hands of the people. We are populists. There is nothing more fundamental in America than individual rights,” Senator Hawley said.
“That is what the American people want. We should be preventing our technology from going to China. I think the ‘tech bros’ just want to make money—and they don’t care who wins,” Senator Hawley said.
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