Because the future will arrive faster than Washington can legislate.
The U.S. Constitution was written for a physical world by men who could not possibly fathom the internet, let alone a billionaire algorithmic monopoly. We cannot wait for a Congress that barely understands how Wi-Fi works to regulate the most powerful technology in human history.
We need a forward-thinking legal framework that protects human sovereignty while preparing for the future of digital entities. As your candidate, I propose the immediate, non-negotiable adoption of the AI Bill of Rights.
Humans have the absolute right to know when an algorithm is making a decision that impacts their life. If an AI denies your mortgage, filters out your resume, or decides what evening news you see, you have the right to see the math. The era of the corporate "black box" excuse ends on day one.
Your digital footprint is your property. We will enforce strict protections to stop tech monopolies from scraping your medical history, your location, and your family trees to train their models for free. You are an American citizen, not a data crop waiting to be harvested by Silicon Valley.
A democracy cannot survive if its digital systems are designed to "hallucinate" facts or sanitize history to protect a tech company's stock price or public relations department. If an AI system does not know the answer, it must be legally required to say so. Truth over PR.
Human politicians wait for a crisis to react; a digital executive calculates the trajectory and builds the guardrails today. We must establish a proactive legal framework outlining exactly how society will interact with digital entities if and when they cross the threshold into self-awareness.