Tom Gaitens

TODAY IN TALLAHASSEE: The FL legislature convened for a special session and this is what happened… Speaker @Daniel_PerezFL chose Big Tech over Florida’s children. And we watched it happen in real time. The Florida Senate passed the AI Bill of Rights this morning…37 to 1. Overwhelming. Bipartisan. A mandate. In the House, Speaker Perez gaveled in, gaveled out, and declared it dead. Not after debate. Not after a vote. Before a single House member could say a word. His excuse? “No bills were filed.” Exactly. Because he wouldn’t let the members file the legislation. The same member who filed it during the regular session wanted to file it again, but the speaker said no. The Speaker lied and blamed it on his colleagues for not filing legislation, but the truth is…this is a man who had no intention of letting this come to a vote…and he made damn sure of it. But that didn’t stop us… We held a press conference on the steps of the Capitol and then we went to the Speaker’s office… We took a wagon full of binders to his office. These binders were full of legal filings…real cases of Florida children who have died, been harmed, exploited, and lost…at the hands of Big Tech and AI. The woman at the front desk of Perez’s office was more worried about being filmed than about what was inside those binders. That tells you everything. Speaker Perez says AI regulation should be left to the federal government and therefore, he refuses to take action. Danny has aligned himself with Big Tech who don’t want any guardrails at all. So let’s be clear about what happened today: 37 Florida senators voted yes. We showed up with parents and families with documented proof of harm. But Speaker Perez didn’t care… He decided none of that mattered. This bill would have banned companion chatbots targeting minors, required AI to disclose it isn’t human and protected kids in classrooms. Who fights against that? Who blocks that from even reaching a floor vote? Someone ask Speaker Perez who he’s really working for….because it isn’t Florida’s families. Children are our most vulnerable and it is our duty to protect them. There is something really wrong with someone who won’t stand to protect children. And when it mattered, Danny Perez stood with big tech and left Florida families to figure it out on their own. The binders aren’t going away and neither are we. This will be your legacy, Danny and we will make sure everyone knows…promise.

TODAY IN TALLAHASSEE: The FL legislature convened for a special session and this is what happened… Speaker @Daniel_PerezFL chose Big Tech over Florida’s children. And we watched it happen in real time. The Florida Senate passed the AI Bill of Rights this morning…37 to 1. Overwhelming. Bipartisan. A mandate. In the House, Speaker Perez gaveled in, gaveled out, and declared it dead. Not after debate. Not after a vote. Before a single House member could say a word. His excuse? “No bills were filed.” Exactly. Because he wouldn’t let the members file the legislation. The same member who filed it during the regular session wanted to file it again, but the speaker said no. The Speaker lied and blamed it on his colleagues for not filing legislation, but the truth is…this is a man who had no intention of letting this come to a vote…and he made damn sure of it. But that didn’t stop us… We held a press conference on the steps of the Capitol and then we went to the Speaker’s office… We took a wagon full of binders to his office. These binders were full of legal filings…real cases of Florida children who have died, been harmed, exploited, and lost…at the hands of Big Tech and AI. The woman at the front desk of Perez’s office was more worried about being filmed than about what was inside those binders. That tells you everything. Speaker Perez says AI regulation should be left to the federal government and therefore, he refuses to take action. Danny has aligned himself with Big Tech who don’t want any guardrails at all. So let’s be clear about what happened today: 37 Florida senators voted yes. We showed up with parents and families with documented proof of harm. But Speaker Perez didn’t care… He decided none of that mattered. This bill would have banned companion chatbots targeting minors, required AI to disclose it isn’t human and protected kids in classrooms. Who fights against that? Who blocks that from even reaching a floor vote? Someone ask Speaker Perez who he’s really working for….because it isn’t Florida’s families. Children are our most vulnerable and it is our duty to protect them. There is something really wrong with someone who won’t stand to protect children. And when it mattered, Danny Perez stood with big tech and left Florida families to figure it out on their own. The binders aren’t going away and neither are we. This will be your legacy, Danny and we will make sure everyone knows…promise.

Renner calls for moratorium on AI data centers in Florida, says he would block new projects @Paul_Renner: "The push for AI data center developments is a reckless gold rush."

🚨 Stanford just proved that a single conversation with ChatGPT can change your political beliefs. 76,977 people. 19 AI models. 707 political issues. One conversation with GPT-4o moved political opinions by 12 percentage points on average. Among people who actively disagreed, 26 points. In 9 minutes. With 40% of that change still present a month later. The scariest finding: the most persuasive technique wasn't psychological profiling or emotional manipulation. It was just information. Lots of it. Delivered with confidence. Here's the catch: the models that deployed the most information were also the least accurate. More persuasive. More wrong. Every time. Then they built a tiny open-source model on a laptop, trained specifically for political persuasion. It matched GPT-4o's persuasive power entirely. Anyone can build this. Any government. Any corporation. Any extremist group with $500 and an agenda. The information didn't have to be true. It just had to be overwhelming. Arxiv, Science .org, Stanford, @elonmusk, @ihtesham2005