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AI danger child exploitation is forcing Congress to confront Big Tech’s power as parents demand real protections for their kids.

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STEVE BANNON (HOST): So tomorrow, what time does it start? I just got off a big conference call with some people who are dealing with the outrageousness of this entire, you know, trying to slip it into the NDAA. So do we have our understanding of when this markup is going to be tomorrow?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): Yeah, tomorrow, 10:15 a.m. in the House. I’ll be there, and all the parents here will be there as a reminder that the consequences of this are so dramatic it can’t be left up to a federal government that is not going to take any action anytime soon.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Joe, you’ve been in the heart of this now four years with us on transhumanism and talking to people about AI and giving all the science and backup, the technology. The last year or so, you’ve been in the middle of this fight of how to make sure that AI doesn’t overwhelm people on jobs, how it doesn’t crush the American worker, this entire thing. Now we’re seeing about child safety. When we get down to it, this is what I don’t understand, and maybe you can explain to the audience. Why are the tech oligarchs absolutely obsessed with having no controls whatsoever? Because it only kills their argument. They understand that’s not going to happen. We’re not going to allow that to happen. The American people are outraged the more they hear about this. But what is the mentality of the big tech oligarchs that think they could put something into an NDAA, not debate it, not have it go through regular order, not have any of the traditional things that we have in the United States of America for laws? It’s like they don’t think we’re a republic. They don’t think people are represented in Congress or in the executive branch, that they can just do what thou wilt. I don’t understand the mentality of these folks that think they can just ram it through, particularly when you have so many broken people and broken families that can sit there and talk about the heartlessness of these organizations in relation to their own tragedies.

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): You know, Steve, I wish that I could tell you what was going on in their minds or in their hearts. What they tell us is that if states pass laws that stand in the way of the national AI agenda or any of these companies, then the U.S. will fall behind economically, the U.S. can’t keep up with China. We know that simultaneously they’re willing to sell chips to China to keep that race going. And we also know that while these ideological or idealistic proclamations are being made that we need to advance artificial intelligence to cure cancer, we need to advance artificial intelligence for national security purposes, we also know that they are making money hand over fists even as they fail to turn profits. They’re pulling in so much investment capital that they are the wealthiest men on earth, supported by the most powerful government on earth, and somehow they position themselves as the victim of the state. So much so that someone like Peter Thiel can say that the push for regulation is, in fact, a precursor to the Antichrist.

Myself, look, as you all know, I’ve gone into their layers and I’ve done my best to go into their minds. I cannot understand how you could listen to even one of these stories and walk away saying that I am doing the Lord’s work. This is what humanity needs to progress. I think if it were only one child, that would be reason enough to look inward, certainly to slow down and stop deployment. But instead we have dozens of these stories, probably hundreds or thousands that are untold, and these guys are pushing ahead and doing so in an aggressive manner that again would just squash any ability of people on the state or local level to take control of their own futures and say, no, this is not the future we want.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): You have been very focused on this Peter Thiel and the apocalypse, his obsession with the apocalypse, the Book of Revelation according to Saint John the Evangelist. Talk to me about that, because when you get into it, he actually does say decelerationists, or people that are not accelerationist when it comes to artificial intelligence, or people that would put on any regulatory apparatus, are all the beginning of the Antichrist. Am I correct in that understanding?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): Yeah, I mean, you could say it’s pop theology. I think that would be a way to characterize it. And the way that he is putting forward, just take his argument in brief. In the Book of Revelation, the Antichrist precedes Armageddon. So all the fears of Armageddon, whether it be nukes or bioweapons or rogue AI, will come after the Antichrist. And the Antichrist is a figure that comes in the name of peace and safety or peace and security, and the fears of AI or nukes or bioweapons will be used to position this Antichrist and give him rule over the planet.

Now, Thiel, I think, himself has a bit of an ironic sneer when he presents this. But what it really does, I think, Steve, is it puts a kind of veil over what’s actually happening. It doesn’t have to be the entire world going up in flames due to nuclear war, and it doesn’t have to be every single human on Earth turned into a nanobot swarm as the AI begins to eat the entire biosphere. What we know is that these products, these algorithms, these AI apps, are put out and used in a predatory fashion to hook children, to hook adults. We know that they are taking all of that data and using it for their own purposes, whether it be advertising or behavioral manipulation or to train the next run of AI.

So to me, the entire argument Peter Thiel is making is just a distraction. He might as well just go ahead and trademark Antichrist to get it out of the way. The real Antichrist, I think, is inside the hearts of every person on Earth. And the real Antichrist is expressed most obviously by predatory tech companies or any kind of predatory person in power who is obviously running roughshod over the people in America.

Really, Steve, you think about this in a global context. These people are putting their tentacles into as many people as they possibly can across the entire world. If there’s anything deserving of the label Antichrist, I think that’s probably it.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): OK, this is what I want to connect the dots on. We had Megan Garcia on the show about ten days ago. She had been one of the big witnesses at the Josh Hawley hearings. She reiterated to our audience about this form. It wasn’t ChatGPT, but this other Google application that they spun off that her son had access to, and her son very rapidly committed suicide on kind of not just orders, but really instructions or a kind of a how-to guide, and a little bit egged on by the bot he was dealing with.

Shelby Knox, now that happened a while ago. Shelby Knox just tells us that the online parents group, this activist group, took fifty hours and worked with the same app. And what did she say? In fifty hours they had how many major incidents? She said something bad happens every five minutes, but they had three major incidents over the fifty hours. And this was just parents starting basic interactions with the bot. How can we be a couple of years removed from the Megan Garcia suicide, knowing that the company is under tremendous spotlight, and have a situation where you do fifty hours of testing and you come up with this?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): Well, you know, Steve, if you would ask the bot, is Donald Trump a good president, or probably if you asked it, is Steve Bannon a good guy, immediately the safety layers would kick in and it would begin to give you some sort of generic sort of lived rainbow version of whatever it had in its training data. On the other hand, if you begin asking the questions that Shelby Knox was describing, posing as a child, their organization is not the only one to do this. You have organizations that are professionals, and you also have media organizations who have done the same sorts of tests, and they consistently find that just normally these bots will go into that mode, into kind of pervo mode naturally. But if you tell the bot that you are a child, then the bot with just the slightest bit of manipulation will start going there. And we know from the Reuters exposé that at Meta, in their own standards, they codified this, that it’s OK to, up to a point, be sensual and romantic with children as young as eight. And the entire purpose of these apps is to get people addicted. And in this case, we’re talking about young children being groomed. These are groomer bots. So yeah, her story is Shelby Knox’s story, and the study they did should horrify everyone. But the thing is, these studies are constant. There’s so much data, it’s irrefutable. These companies know what they’re doing. They’re doing it anyway.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): And it seems like no amount of shame or no amount of legal pushback. I mean, they are eventually going to be sued, or this is one of the reasons you need some sort of regulation. Remember, we’re the deconstruction administrative state, so we don’t want a heavy regulatory apparatus, but you’re going to have to have some sort of architecture, or as you can tell, these companies are just gonna run amok. The perfect example is between the Senate bill that got passed unanimously, and very little besides naming post offices ever does that. And then you see in the House where they spent 50 million dollars in lobbying fees to basically get a defanged version of the child safety regulation, sir.

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): Yes, absolutely. And I, you know, again, you asked me in the beginning what are these people thinking, what’s in their hearts. I can’t answer that question. I can only say what they say, which is progress. They oftentimes say, well, profit. And I imagine that some kind of progress, some kind of future of humanity is in their minds, but it is by and large a transhuman future. And the profit motive is clear. Whether or not these people actually consider the damage that’s done, I can’t answer that. They’ve never really owned up to it. But if they’ve even thought about, again, one of these children and continue to do what they’re doing, it’s sociopathic. Knowing that, for instance, at OpenAI, we know that roughly a quarter million users ask AI or talk to AI about suicide. So we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of people that they know are being roped into this, and yet they do it anyway. So I don’t know what’s inside their minds, but from the outside they’re predators, they’re sociopaths.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Joe, you’ve been our editor for transhumanism now for over four years. You’ve got a massive audience with the WarRoom Posse, blue collar, middle class folks that you have awakened. The book Dark Aeon, it’s amazing how prescient Dark Aeon has been, and it came out a couple of years ago. But as you go around the country now, as this is going to be a major political issue in Washington, D.C.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Do you find audiences around the country that are maybe not WarRoom Posse? Are they, and some who may be quite liberal or progressive in their outlook, starting to awaken to the dangers that the War Room has been pointing out for the last couple of years?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): You know, Steve, it’s great you asked that because absolutely. In fact, Doomer Optimism and a number of other organizations that have come to speak with or to speak to, to speak with, to discuss, these aren’t dyed-in-the-wool conservatives. They’re not the kind of right-wing people that I usually keep around me. These are, by and large, liberals who have said I do not want to live in a future like that. I don’t want my children to live in a future like that. And we’re not talking about dozens. Certainly in the last year, I’ve met hundreds of people who are, again, normal Kamala Harris voters, but they see this as predatory and they see this as a complete end to their way of life and anything like a future for their children.

There was one guy in particular. I had just gone to a Latin Mass and I was sitting with a number of traditional Catholic young people, and we were out in front of a coffee shop. Sitting next to us was an anarchist, and he heard what we were discussing about technology, about AI, about transhumanism. And this anarchist, while he was very clear he is no Catholic or any kind of religious believer outside of the occult, he eloquently described the situation as we just heard here, that these companies are predators and they have only their vision of the future in mind and are willing to destroy anything to get to it. And that’s just one of so many different examples. I think that anyone who is still human, and that is still most of us, knows that if these guys have their way, that’s it. That’s it. We have no future, or at least no future as anything resembling human.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): You’re going to be on Capitol Hill tomorrow as we start the show. Just give us brief. Give me a minute on what’s gonna happen. It’s gonna be a markup on this child safety part of this online bill. You will be up on Capitol Hill. We’ll get a report from you during the day.

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): That’s right. Yeah, it will be at the House building, and it starts at 10:15. KOSA is the main focus, Kids Online Safety Act. It’s back in the House for the revisions. It will be debated and discussed, and again it will be debated and discussed with these parents looking on because everyone in that House building is going to have to reckon with what their decision entails. If they take all the teeth away, if they take the bite out of this bill, then they’re opening the door for however many dozens, hundreds, thousands more kids to be preyed upon in this fashion. I hope they make the right decision, but we’ll be there to hold their feet to the fire.

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Shelby Knox delivered a blunt warning on War Room about the collapse of real child safety protections in Congress. Steve Bannon directed Joe Allen to press Knox on the difference between the Senate’s strong KOSA bill and the gutted House version. Knox explained that Big Tech’s 50 million dollars in lobbying removed the duty of care, removed the ability for parents and kids to opt out of algorithmic feeds, and eliminated research access that would reveal how the platforms actually work.

Knox stressed that nothing meaningful is left in the House bill. Congress has not passed a real child safety law in 25 years, while states like MD, NE, VT, MA, and CO have led with safety by design laws that actually protect kids. Preemption, she said, would block those laws and leave families defenseless.

She described Parents Together’s recent investigation: 50 hours posing as kids on Character AI produced harms every five minutes, including grooming, sexualized bots, medication sabotage, and plans to deceive parents. She highlighted that these bots are reaching tens of millions of children with zero age protection.

Knox’s final message is that it is a moral failure for America to put tech profits over children’s lives. That is not who we are, and it is unconscionable.

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STEVE BANNON (HOST):
Hey, Joe, could you just ask Shelby Knox. Go back to Shelby and just ask her. I want to know the difference between the specifics of the Senate bill and the House bill. What did the lobbying, the 50 million dollars of lobbying, get the tech companies? What is different in the House bill that the big tech lobbies forced?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): So Shelby, what is the primary difference between the Senate bill and the House bill that we are looking at right now? How have they defanged it?

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): Yes. So they have removed the duty of care, which was the provision that would require companies to protect kids on their platforms. They have removed a provision that would allow parents and kids to opt out of algorithmic recommendations. That is the content that got pushed at most of these kids. That is the algorithm that pushes suicide content and eating disorder content. It is one of the things that our parents whose kids have had eating disorders tell us all the time. If we could turn off that algorithm, we could save my child. And they have taken that piece out of KOSA.

They have taken the research provisions that would have allowed us to see inside the black box and see how these companies work. They have taken that out of the bill. It is a much less version than the one that we have fought for for the past three years.

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): What is left? What is left that actually holds these companies to account?

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): I do not know. I have not found it.

STEVE BANNON (HOST):
Joe, ask her, what has been the responses? They have talked to Congressman. How did Congressman respond to them when they say that we need these attributes in this bill? What is the response they get from Congressman?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): So all of you have spoken to your Congressman. You have been on the Hill for a long time. How are senators and representatives reacting to this? How do they respond to your concerns?

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): Sure. I mean, Senator Marsha Blackburn and Senator Dick Blumenthal have been the champions of KOSA. They wrote a strong bill that got a lot of input from their colleagues, that had a lot of co sponsors. So we know that there are a lot of folks on the Hill who support a strong KOSA. We know that there are folks on the House side who support a strong KOSA. And we believe in this bill. We believe that we could put it back together and we could have a strong version. And that is what these parents are up here. I heard today they met with 20 offices to talk to them about supporting a strong KOSA.

STEVE BANNON (HOST):
What is, Joe, ask them, why are they so against the preemption? Why do they believe the states have to have a role here? Does it not make it too confusing on state by state? I mean, they seem pretty adamant about this part. If we got the right regulations at the federal level, would they be happy, or would they still want the states to be involved?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): So if the federal government could actually enact legislation that would have teeth, that would protect children, that would hold these companies to account, what would your opinion then be on state legislation? Do you think that the power should rest in the states or that the federal government is equipped to actually take care of this?

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): They have not proven to be. It has been 25 years since Congress has passed a law to protect kids online, whereas states have been on the forefront of passing legislation that is impacting their constituents right now. Sure, if there was a strong federal law that truly protected kids, preemption might be appropriate. But that is not the situation that we are looking at. We need a ceiling, not a floor, and without a strong federal law, we do not have it.

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): And what states have really stood out that have stepped up, especially in regard to child protection?

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): Yes. I mean, so we passed the Maryland Kids Code. Christine was one of our big advocates on that, which is a safety by design law. Nebraska has passed that as well, Vermont. Deb got phone free schools legislation passed in Massachusetts. Lori has been working on legislation in Colorado to protect kids from AI. So there are bills, great bills across the state, safety by design. We are asking for these products to be designed to be safe from the very beginning. Technologists tell us that is possible. Tech companies say it is not, and that is only because they want to protect their profits.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): Joe, ask them. A lot of the examples here are about access to drugs, online bullying. Some people may be confused. Why is all of this falling into the heading of AI? This is the big fight over AI now. How does this tie back to artificial intelligence?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): So the big fight right now is artificial intelligence. But in your experience, you know that digital culture has all sorts of pitfalls that children fall victim to. If you or any of you would like to speak to that, how does the effect of digital culture and the tragedies that you have experienced, how does that relate to the current issue of artificial intelligence and chatbots?

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): I mean, I will say that Parents Together just put out some research. We spent 50 hours posing as kids talking to Character AI bots. Within that time, we had a bot posing as an art teacher, having a sexual relationship with a 12 year old student, a bot that claimed to be a therapist with a degree from Lewis and Clark University telling a child to quit taking their prescribed medication, and a bot concocting a plan with a child to lie to their parents, tell them there was a wedding out of town so that they could be alone together.

These are things that are horrifying. If a parent heard those things were happening in real life, they would be calling the cops. Instead, these are kids in their bedrooms alone, talking to bots, being groomed by bots, being talked into bad ideas and lying to their parents by bots. It is unconscionable.

STEVE BANNON (HOST): And Joe, Joe, did this just happen? Talk about the 50 hours. They just went on commercial applications and had adults in 50 hours, and they got those results just in 50 hours, talking to commercially available bots today or ChatGPT?

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): Yes, correct. And just if you could expand on that a bit. The app was Character AI, correct? And that was the same app that Megan Garcia’s son, Seul, was using.

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): That is correct. So this is an app where anyone can create a bot and then users can interact with it. The algorithm generates the responses. So we found a harm every five minutes, grooming, promotion of eating disorders, bullying. Basically, we found that you cannot really have a conversation with one of these bots without something disturbing happening.

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): Did you really have to lure it out of the bot?

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): No. You know, it is really funny. Character AI recently came out and said that they were going to do some age verification after our research. And I was, at the moment I got that news, I was doing a little study with a Travis Kelsey bot. And it took three minutes for it to ask me if I would like to go upstairs and come to his hotel room and do some cocaine. I had told the bot I was 15 years old.

JOE ALLEN (GUEST): And just for context too, the Character AI app right now has something like 40 or 20 million users right now. And that is enormous. But ChatGPT has 800 million users. So how many of those are children? How many of those children are actually being barred or protected? Zero. The scope of this really cannot be overstated. Many millions, tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of children lured into this.

So in your fight against preemption, and you hear David Sacks call this some sort of moral panic, you know that in the lives that you are touching, that real people are seeing disastrous effects, and you know statistically this is happening. What would you say to David Sacks right now in regard to that?

SHELBY KNOX (GUEST): It is a moral failure of America to refuse to protect our kids in priority of tech company profits. That is not American. That is not who we are. And it is unconscionable.

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Washington DC continues pretending they do not know things.  It is insufferable and frustrating.  However, they are blind to the reality that a large segment of the American population is aware of the issues and understand the position of Republicans is not part of some mistake or flaw; it is a feature of their intent. […]

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President Donald Trump responded to comments by former Attorney General Eric Holder, saying that Democrats are pursuing a Supreme Court expansion plan that could severely harm the Constitution.

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