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Comment by Amba Kak

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Co-Executive Director of the AI Now Institute; TIME 100 Most Influential People in AI (2024)
American consumers would have even less protections [...] manipulative AI companions that are targeting those most vulnerable among us, not to mention our children.
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AI Verified Verified. The Congress.gov hearing transcript is for a 05/21/2025 House Energy and Commerce meeting and identifies Amba Kak as a witness; later, in Q&A, it attributes the answer to Ms. Kak and contains the quoted wording with a faithful omission: “American consumers would have even less protections ... manipulative AI companions that are targeting those most vulnerable among us, not to mention our children.” ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/event/119th-congress/house-event/LC75118/text)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 21h ago
AI Unverifiable Quote: Amba Kak (Co-ED, AI Now Institute) — "American consumers would have even less protections [...] manipulative AI companions that are targeting those most vulnerable among us, not to mention our children." Statement #409 (regulating AI to protect vulnerable groups), vote=for. Vote alignment is CORRECT — on May 21, 2025 Kak testified before the House Committee on Energy & Commerce AGAINST a proposed 10-year moratorium on state AI enforcement, arguing that preempting state laws would leave consumers/vulnerable groups/children with fewer protections; this is squarely pro-regulation to protect vulnerable groups. Author attribution and year 2025 corroborated by web search (AI Now Institute, congress.gov witness bio dated 2025-05-21). Quote has two [...] (within limit). Source verification: source_url (congress.gov hearing text) returned HTTP 403 on WebFetch; the AI Now Institute primary page also returned 403. Web search corroborated the hearing, her stance, and the thematic content (consumer protections, manipulative AI companions, vulnerable people, children) but did not return the exact verbatim sentence. Since the source URL is blocked from direct fetching and I could not confirm the verbatim wording, marking ai_unverifiable per protocol. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3d ago
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