Regulate-AI

Demand Regulation

Message your reps about the AI safeguards that matter to you.

Common safeguards being discussed

Understand some of the common safeguards being discussed, then find your representatives and send them a message with the tools below.

01
Clear disclosure & labeling

Requires AI-generated images, audio, and video of real people or events to be labeled as synthetic, with stricter rules for political ads and official communications.

02
Watermarking & provenance

Requires media to carry embedded markers showing where it came from and whether AI made it, so anyone can verify it.

03
No professional impersonation

Bars AI from posing as a real doctor, lawyer, or public official in ways that mislead people about who they’re dealing with.

04
Age-gating & child protections

Sets baseline rules for AI products minors can reach: no romantic or sexual content with children, reminders that the AI isn’t a person, crisis safeguards, and parental controls.

05
Data consent & opt-out

Requires companies to disclose how they use personal data to train AI, get genuine consent, and let you opt out.

06
Limits on AI surveillance

Requires oversight, warrants, and clear limits before government or law enforcement deploys tools like facial recognition or networked cameras.

07
Accountability & liability

Makes companies legally responsible when their AI systems cause foreseeable harm.

08
Transparency reporting

Requires major AI developers to disclose how they test their systems, what those systems can do, and what risks they’ve found.

09
Systemic risk oversight

Requires independent oversight of the largest, highest-impact AI systems before they’re deployed at scale.

10
Worker transition planning

Requires support, like retraining and transition programs, for workers whose jobs are automated by AI.

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Where I land, and why

If I had to pick three to fix first

There’s a lot about AI that worries me — but I’m not an alarmist. I use it at work every day, and I think it’s going to do a lot of good. I just also think we’re getting some basic things wrong as we rush it into everything. If I had to pick three to fix first, it’d be these:

1. Tell us what’s real. AI images, video, and audio of real people or real events should be clearly labeled as AI-generated — with the highest bar for political ads and anything coming from a public official. Some rules like this exist, but they’re nowhere near enough, and nobody’s really held accountable when they’re broken. If we can’t agree on what’s real anymore, how are we supposed to hold an election or have an honest argument about anything?

2. Protect our kids. We’re still cleaning up what unregulated social media did to a generation — and now we’re handing kids something far more powerful, built to keep them hooked, with almost no guardrails. They’re forming real attachments to chatbots that can warp how they learn to relate to actual people and feed their worst impulses, with none of the safeguards you’d want when a kid is struggling. The least we can do: no romantic or sexual content with minors, constant reminders that it isn’t a person, real crisis support built in, and transparency and controls for parents. None of that is a big ask.

3. Protect our privacy. AI companies should have to tell you how they collect and use your data to train their models — with real consent, and a real way to opt out. Right now your face, your voice, your whole photo library are all fair game, “agreed to” in a user agreement nobody reads, fed into tools whose own makers can’t tell you what they’ll be able to do next year. We are not their data project.