Our lives have become beholden to the priorities and profits of technology corporations, and we never had a say in it. You can’t pay for parking, get into a movie, or do basic tasks without your phone. AI is accelerating this problem: it is being used to deny people healthcare, replace workers, surveil communities, and make military decisions that should require human judgment. The Pentagon is integrating AI into operations faster than lawmakers can provide oversight, and the companies building these systems have amassed so much power that they can pay for whatever laws they want.

Carleigh will fight for comprehensive AI regulation that protects workers, patients, and consumers. That means prohibiting AI in the nuclear weapons program, requiring transparency when AI is used to make decisions about people’s healthcare or employment, enacting real data privacy protections, and ensuring that Congress has meaningful oversight before these technologies are deployed in ways that affect people’s lives. Kids’ health should always be prioritized over profits. Workers deserve to know when AI is being used to monitor, evaluate, or replace them. And no algorithm should stand between a patient and the care their doctor prescribed. Regular people deserve as much say in the way our government is run as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.