Make AI
work
for us.

Matt Little

MN · 02

Big Tech is coming to Minnesota, and they want to drain our aquifers, gobble up our farmland, and hand the bill to taxpayers. Most AI corporations are fighting to remain completely unregulated, with no safeguards against the potential existential risks AI poses to our planet, our economy, and our democracy. A single hyperscale data center can consume as much water as 12,000 households. A proposed data center in Farmington alone is estimated to drain 900 million gallons from the community’s aquifers – roughly double the water consumption of the entire city. Meanwhile, one hyperscale facility could increase Minnesota’s electricity demand by 4% – the equivalent of adding 285,000 homes. Data centers threaten to drive up energy bills for working families and businesses. I’ll ensure that if data centers want to operate in Minnesota, they pay their full costs. No taxpayer dollars should go to the world’s richest corporations. No draining our aquifers. Transparent, public decision-making – not secret NDA deals. And if we’re going to build them, they must be powered by clean energy and meet our environmental standards. That’s why I’ll fight for a national data center NDA ban, moratoriums on building data centers to let local and state governments assess the real costs without being rolled by mega-corporations bullying them, and serious environmental protections that safeguard our neighborhoods and peaceful communities. And for the AI images and content these data centers produce? I’ll require companies to build guardrails, and I’ll fight to create public-interest safety oversight agencies for these groups and to establish legal causes of action to hold corporations accountable. The US needs to lead the way in creating binding international agreements that establish a global AI safety regime as we do with many other dangerous technologies, such as those used for biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons and energy technology. Deepfake videos are often deceptive attempts to mislead constituents, undermine elections, cheat consumers, and harass children and adults with nonconsensual sexual content churned out by these AI companies with little to no recourse. The concerns about AI taking jobs are real, too, and we have to find ways to balance the real-world use of AI with the outright harm it causes to working families and individuals. The ability to create highly realistic images and sound, combined with the ability to transmit them to millions instantly, poses risks to our democracy and to all free societies worldwide. Only governments have the resources and power needed to hold in check a potential tide wave of lies, deepfakes, identity theft, and disinformation that threaten our nation. AI technology holds the promise of accelerating many beneficial discoveries in fields as far-ranging as medicine, engineering, and urban planning. But none of that promise can be realized without government safeguards and public input. Many of these mega-corporations possess more money and power than many entire nations. Left on their own, they have proven inconsistent in self-regulation at best, disastrously reckless at worst. A consistent, public-first set of guardrails is a vital prerequisite for making AI safe enough to actually serve the public good rather than only AI’s billionaire (or trillionaire!) shareholders. By creating legal guardrails and oversight, we put AI where it belongs: back in the hands of public accountability, not in the hands of malicious actors and corporate bosses seeking to mint more billions for themselves.

Zack Mullock

NJ · 02

AI and Big Tech in general are grossly underregulated. As a father of three, I care deeply about the world we are leaving for the next generation. Today, we have an opportunity to shape our future into one that works for all of us. We need elected officials who aren’t bought off by Big Tech! We need people willing to make tough decisions that protect our environment, our right to peaceful enjoyment, and our economy.

Eric Jones

CA · 04

Dan Schwartz

MD · 01

Massive companies that run and benefit from AI data centers should not be governing themselves, and should not be dictating what kind of development happens in our communities.

Fred Wellman

MO · 02

I firmly believe that leaving our local communities and working people to fight the AI revolution from data centers to the job market is a recipe for disaster. The federal government must quickly act to protect our communities, encourage career training, and work to ensure the future of our environment with smart policies. I’m proud to support efforts to provide reasonable guard rails and legislation that both maintains tech innovation and ensures the companies leading it pay their fair share.

Connie Chan

CALIFORNIA · 11

AI companies are buying influence in our government while simultaneously racing to replace workers, harvest our data, and launch products that compete against the very people who helped build them. With no federal action, AI will expand inequality and concentrate power in a handful of tech giants. In Congress, I will advocate for an immediate moratorium on data centers that drive up utility costs and jeopardize our environment. I will make sure workers and unions have a seat at the table before AI can be used to surveil, discipline, or replace them. I’ll require human oversight in high-risk sectors like health care, transportation, and finance.  I’ll protect artists, writers, and creators whose work trains AI systems.  I will sign on to the DEFIANCE ACT, because victims of nonconsensual & explicit deepfakes should be allowed to take legal action against their perpetrators. And I will make sure we ban political campaigns and political action committees from using AI to deceive voters and spread misinformation. We have to be proactive about regulating AI—we can’t afford to wait.

Patrick Roath

MASSACHUSETTS · 08

I am proud to be a day one signatory to the AI pact. It’s so important that we get the development and rollout of AI right. I want to see worker centric AI that is safe, accessible, and democratically governed.

Mai Vang

CALIFORNIA · 07

A handful of billionaires are racing to replace our jobs, pollute our water, and raise our utility bills while buying the silence they need in Washington. I don't take their PAC money, so I'll fight for a moratorium on data centers that drive up our rates, real accountability when their products cause harm, and workers at the table before any of it touches their livelihood.

Angela Gonzales-Torres

CALIFORNIA · 34

Chris Rabb

PENNSYLVANIA · 03

Justin J. Pearson

TENNESSEE · 09

Government should protect the people, not the profits of corporations and billionaires. I support a national moratorium on new AI data centers until we know more about their operation and impact and can develop strong regulations to protect our air, water, energy resources, workers, and communities. People come before profit. Technological advancement and economic development should never happen at the expense of public health. Working families should never be required to subsidize massive corporate energy demands. Communities deserve transparency and to be able to decide whether and how these projects move forward.

Melat Kiros

COLORADO · 01

Will Lawrence

MICHIGAN · 07

Brad Lander

NEW YORK · 10

Adam Hamawy

NEW JERSEY · 12

Darializa Avila Chevalier

NEW YORK · 13

Jason Poulos

MASSACHUSETTS · 04

Kelly Thompson

INDIANA · 03

Missi Hesketh

MISSOURI · 07

I am signing the AI PACT because there are too many unknowns and we have a history of not exploring cause and effect and effect and effect in this country. And what we do know is that there is significant risks of job loss, which will only create more problems. We also know that at least some of the justification for all of these massive data centers is due to this race to replace, or AI push. It's too much too fast with too many negative outcomes for the majority of us.

Drew Williams

KENTUCKY · 01

Data Centers, like any industry, require effective and community-focused legislation before implementation. This current buildout and the regulations and transparency failures have shown that this is a form of extractionism on many of these communities.

Lauren Jewett

LOUISIANA · 01

I am signing the AI Pact because Louisiana is becoming a national hub for AI and hyperscale data center construction, and it's happening fast. Our families in Louisiana are already being confronted with the fallout of an AI and data-center boom because it has been built on secrecy through NDAs and subsidies and tax breaks for corporations, all while our hardworking residents will be left with the utility bills and environmental costs. I believe we need to put transparency, basic accountability, and our working people first.

Carleigh Beriont

NEW HAMPSHIRE · 01

Our lives have become beholden to the priorities and profits of Big tech, and we never had a say in it. We deserve a seat at the table and a slice of the pie.

Beth

MASSACHUSETTS · 06

I want AI to work for ordinary people, not the tech billionaires forcing our economy to adapt to untested technology. As a software engineer for over 20 years, I understand the danger of unregulated technologies and the way they are already making every problem we are facing - from healthcare to illegal wars - far worse. We need laws to protect people, the environment, and our future, and that is what I am fighting for.

Robb Ryerse

ARKANSAS · 03

Gay Valimont

FLORIDA · 01

Elizabeth Lee

ARIZONA · 05

AI has enormous potential to improve our lives, strengthen our economy and transform fields from healthcare and education to scientific research. But if we push innovation without guardrails, that has the potential to cause real harm. In Congress, I intend to champion clear, enforceable standards for the development and use of AI, including strong protections for personal data and privacy, transparency when AI is used to make consequential decisions, safeguards against discrimination and algorithmic bias, protections for workers and consumers, and meaningful accountability when companies cause harm. We should also establish firm limits on deceptive deepfakes and ensure that decisions affecting someone’s healthcare, employment, education, civil rights or access to government benefits never become the unchecked judgment of an algorithm. America should lead the world in AI innovation, but we should lead responsibly—with technology serving people, not people being forced to serve technology.

Mary Allen

INDIANA · 08

We need to ensure that AI serves the public interest, workers, and safety, rather than just corporate profits. When large AI companies come in to drive up our utility costs, drain our water tables, and take away our jobs, that threatens our way of life. Reasonable regulations can and must be established. That’s why I signed the AI Pact – as my promise to ensure that when I’m elected, I will vote to protect your right to clean air and water, affordable electricity, public safety and jobs.

Matt Little

MN · 02

Big Tech is coming to Minnesota, and they want to drain our aquifers, gobble up our farmland, and hand the bill to taxpayers. Most AI corporations are fighting to remain completely unregulated, with no safeguards against the potential existential risks AI poses to our planet, our economy, and our democracy. A single hyperscale data center can consume as much water as 12,000 households. A proposed data center in Farmington alone is estimated to drain 900 million gallons from the community’s aquifers – roughly double the water consumption of the entire city. Meanwhile, one hyperscale facility could increase Minnesota’s electricity demand by 4% – the equivalent of adding 285,000 homes. Data centers threaten to drive up energy bills for working families and businesses. I’ll ensure that if data centers want to operate in Minnesota, they pay their full costs. No taxpayer dollars should go to the world’s richest corporations. No draining our aquifers. Transparent, public decision-making – not secret NDA deals. And if we’re going to build them, they must be powered by clean energy and meet our environmental standards. That’s why I’ll fight for a national data center NDA ban, moratoriums on building data centers to let local and state governments assess the real costs without being rolled by mega-corporations bullying them, and serious environmental protections that safeguard our neighborhoods and peaceful communities. And for the AI images and content these data centers produce? I’ll require companies to build guardrails, and I’ll fight to create public-interest safety oversight agencies for these groups and to establish legal causes of action to hold corporations accountable. The US needs to lead the way in creating binding international agreements that establish a global AI safety regime as we do with many other dangerous technologies, such as those used for biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons and energy technology. Deepfake videos are often deceptive attempts to mislead constituents, undermine elections, cheat consumers, and harass children and adults with nonconsensual sexual content churned out by these AI companies with little to no recourse. The concerns about AI taking jobs are real, too, and we have to find ways to balance the real-world use of AI with the outright harm it causes to working families and individuals. The ability to create highly realistic images and sound, combined with the ability to transmit them to millions instantly, poses risks to our democracy and to all free societies worldwide. Only governments have the resources and power needed to hold in check a potential tide wave of lies, deepfakes, identity theft, and disinformation that threaten our nation. AI technology holds the promise of accelerating many beneficial discoveries in fields as far-ranging as medicine, engineering, and urban planning. But none of that promise can be realized without government safeguards and public input. Many of these mega-corporations possess more money and power than many entire nations. Left on their own, they have proven inconsistent in self-regulation at best, disastrously reckless at worst. A consistent, public-first set of guardrails is a vital prerequisite for making AI safe enough to actually serve the public good rather than only AI’s billionaire (or trillionaire!) shareholders. By creating legal guardrails and oversight, we put AI where it belongs: back in the hands of public accountability, not in the hands of malicious actors and corporate bosses seeking to mint more billions for themselves.

Zack Mullock

NJ · 02

AI and Big Tech in general are grossly underregulated. As a father of three, I care deeply about the world we are leaving for the next generation. Today, we have an opportunity to shape our future into one that works for all of us. We need elected officials who aren’t bought off by Big Tech! We need people willing to make tough decisions that protect our environment, our right to peaceful enjoyment, and our economy.

Eric Jones

CA · 04

Dan Schwartz

MD · 01

Massive companies that run and benefit from AI data centers should not be governing themselves, and should not be dictating what kind of development happens in our communities.

Fred Wellman

MO · 02

I firmly believe that leaving our local communities and working people to fight the AI revolution from data centers to the job market is a recipe for disaster. The federal government must quickly act to protect our communities, encourage career training, and work to ensure the future of our environment with smart policies. I’m proud to support efforts to provide reasonable guard rails and legislation that both maintains tech innovation and ensures the companies leading it pay their fair share.

Connie Chan

CALIFORNIA · 11

AI companies are buying influence in our government while simultaneously racing to replace workers, harvest our data, and launch products that compete against the very people who helped build them. With no federal action, AI will expand inequality and concentrate power in a handful of tech giants. In Congress, I will advocate for an immediate moratorium on data centers that drive up utility costs and jeopardize our environment. I will make sure workers and unions have a seat at the table before AI can be used to surveil, discipline, or replace them. I’ll require human oversight in high-risk sectors like health care, transportation, and finance.  I’ll protect artists, writers, and creators whose work trains AI systems.  I will sign on to the DEFIANCE ACT, because victims of nonconsensual & explicit deepfakes should be allowed to take legal action against their perpetrators. And I will make sure we ban political campaigns and political action committees from using AI to deceive voters and spread misinformation. We have to be proactive about regulating AI—we can’t afford to wait.

Patrick Roath

MASSACHUSETTS · 08

I am proud to be a day one signatory to the AI pact. It’s so important that we get the development and rollout of AI right. I want to see worker centric AI that is safe, accessible, and democratically governed.

Mai Vang

CALIFORNIA · 07

A handful of billionaires are racing to replace our jobs, pollute our water, and raise our utility bills while buying the silence they need in Washington. I don't take their PAC money, so I'll fight for a moratorium on data centers that drive up our rates, real accountability when their products cause harm, and workers at the table before any of it touches their livelihood.

Angela Gonzales-Torres

CALIFORNIA · 34

Chris Rabb

PENNSYLVANIA · 03

Justin J. Pearson

TENNESSEE · 09

Government should protect the people, not the profits of corporations and billionaires. I support a national moratorium on new AI data centers until we know more about their operation and impact and can develop strong regulations to protect our air, water, energy resources, workers, and communities. People come before profit. Technological advancement and economic development should never happen at the expense of public health. Working families should never be required to subsidize massive corporate energy demands. Communities deserve transparency and to be able to decide whether and how these projects move forward.

Melat Kiros

COLORADO · 01

Will Lawrence

MICHIGAN · 07

Brad Lander

NEW YORK · 10

Adam Hamawy

NEW JERSEY · 12

Darializa Avila Chevalier

NEW YORK · 13

Jason Poulos

MASSACHUSETTS · 04

Kelly Thompson

INDIANA · 03

Missi Hesketh

MISSOURI · 07

I am signing the AI PACT because there are too many unknowns and we have a history of not exploring cause and effect and effect and effect in this country. And what we do know is that there is significant risks of job loss, which will only create more problems. We also know that at least some of the justification for all of these massive data centers is due to this race to replace, or AI push. It's too much too fast with too many negative outcomes for the majority of us.

Drew Williams

KENTUCKY · 01

Data Centers, like any industry, require effective and community-focused legislation before implementation. This current buildout and the regulations and transparency failures have shown that this is a form of extractionism on many of these communities.

Lauren Jewett

LOUISIANA · 01

I am signing the AI Pact because Louisiana is becoming a national hub for AI and hyperscale data center construction, and it's happening fast. Our families in Louisiana are already being confronted with the fallout of an AI and data-center boom because it has been built on secrecy through NDAs and subsidies and tax breaks for corporations, all while our hardworking residents will be left with the utility bills and environmental costs. I believe we need to put transparency, basic accountability, and our working people first.

Carleigh Beriont

NEW HAMPSHIRE · 01

Our lives have become beholden to the priorities and profits of Big tech, and we never had a say in it. We deserve a seat at the table and a slice of the pie.

Beth

MASSACHUSETTS · 06

I want AI to work for ordinary people, not the tech billionaires forcing our economy to adapt to untested technology. As a software engineer for over 20 years, I understand the danger of unregulated technologies and the way they are already making every problem we are facing - from healthcare to illegal wars - far worse. We need laws to protect people, the environment, and our future, and that is what I am fighting for.

Robb Ryerse

ARKANSAS · 03

Gay Valimont

FLORIDA · 01

Elizabeth Lee

ARIZONA · 05

AI has enormous potential to improve our lives, strengthen our economy and transform fields from healthcare and education to scientific research. But if we push innovation without guardrails, that has the potential to cause real harm. In Congress, I intend to champion clear, enforceable standards for the development and use of AI, including strong protections for personal data and privacy, transparency when AI is used to make consequential decisions, safeguards against discrimination and algorithmic bias, protections for workers and consumers, and meaningful accountability when companies cause harm. We should also establish firm limits on deceptive deepfakes and ensure that decisions affecting someone’s healthcare, employment, education, civil rights or access to government benefits never become the unchecked judgment of an algorithm. America should lead the world in AI innovation, but we should lead responsibly—with technology serving people, not people being forced to serve technology.

Mary Allen

INDIANA · 08

We need to ensure that AI serves the public interest, workers, and safety, rather than just corporate profits. When large AI companies come in to drive up our utility costs, drain our water tables, and take away our jobs, that threatens our way of life. Reasonable regulations can and must be established. That’s why I signed the AI Pact – as my promise to ensure that when I’m elected, I will vote to protect your right to clean air and water, affordable electricity, public safety and jobs.