Tim Estes

Called the "Robocop" of Wall Street by Forbes. 25 years building AI companies. Chair, Alliance for a Better Future. CEO of AngelQ. Fmr CEO of Digital Reasoning

[Tim Estes @twestes]

@MarshaBlackburn @SenBlumenthal @HawleyMO @SenTedCruz @SenatorDurbin @SpeakerJohnson

Its time. The science is settled. Let's come together to protect the kids. #passKOSA #passGUARD

Its time now

@JOEBOTxyz @BetterFuture_AI @fairplayforkids @parents4sos @heatinitiative @NCOSE

[U.S. Surgeon General @Surgeon_General]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Surgeon General today released the Surgeon General’s Warning on the Harms of Screen Use: An Advisory and Toolkit on How to Protect Children and Adolescents, which raises national awareness about the growing risks associated with excessive and harmful screen use among young people.

[Tim Estes @twestes]

@BenBrodyDC there is a lot to still get there but when a more open process and pragmatic take on AI regulation is taken, it signals progress and that needs to be encouraged.

The Era of Laissez-Faire AI Policy is at an end. That's a good thing. But there is still much to do to get to an American and Conservative AI policy we can be proud of.

What's clearly missing is movement on societal risks to match this bill's focus on catastrophic ones. Something like @MarshaBlackburn 's Trump American AI Act also needs to get advanced together in parallel. And of course, the preemption in GAAIA is unacceptably broad - preemption should be a floor for states to build on, not a ceiling.

@BetterFuture_AI has always been for positive and pragmatic approaches to AI. We will work with those trying to safeguard American families and channel American innovation into technology that advances human flourishing

[Tim Estes @twestes]

Concerning...

Is this what you do for a future bailout?

@elonmusk @KatieMiller ?

https://t.co/8Ayw7QNuvZ

[Tim Estes @twestes]

100%

Thank you @SenTedCruz for leading in this vital area.

[Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz]

AI is developing rapidly. This administration is right to recognize the cybersecurity risks posed by advanced models.

Now, it's Congress's turn. We must address catastrophic risk without ceding ground to China or restricting Americans’ free expression.

https://t.co/IQYnmuUOpv

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Tim Estes @twestes]

@YDabber59106 @benrayfield @NetChoice You can talk to my bot but they are funnier.

[Tim Estes @twestes]

Families and kids are safer, @NetChoice and other dark vessels of corporate vice are defeated, and the vast anime bot troll army and the humans that act like them are malfunctioning right now…

[Alliance for a Better Future @BetterFuture_AI]

What does this mean for families?

This law is designed to strengthen protections for children online by requiring greater accountability from app stores when it comes to minors accessing digital platforms and content.

For years, parents have raised concerns about children being exposed to:
• harmful and addictive content
• predatory algorithms
• inappropriate apps
• online exploitation risks
• AI-powered platforms with little oversight

Today’s decision is a major step toward giving parents more transparency and more control in the digital age.

Big Tech should not be the only line of defense protecting children online.

Parents are demanding action! Accountability is coming.

[Tim Estes @twestes]

@benrayfield @YDabber59106 @NetChoice Wow first veiled death threat. You are a credit to your cause.

[TN Attorney General @AGTennessee]

Tennessee supports stronger safeguards for children online, including the duty of care protections advanced in Senate legislation championed by Senator @MarshaBlackburn to hold platforms accountable and put kids’ safety first.

[Tim Estes @twestes]

@FreeSpeech_AI you are basically saying that current chatbots mostly exhibit unhealthy behaviors toward minors so we shouldn't restrict them despite that.

Make it make sense.

[Tim Estes @twestes]

@FreeSpeech_AI Read the law out of CMTE:
https://t.co/2KqyfuPLPm

That’s not what it does. What I said is 100% right. You are misrepresenting it.

It does not prohibit chatbots for minors- it prohibits companions. It forces all chatbots not to exhibit certain dangerous behaviors. All reasonable

[Tim Estes @twestes]

Very well written summary from @KevinRobertsTX

[Kevin Roberts @KevinRobertsTX]

Today, Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical—Magnifica Humanitas—135 years since Pope Leo XIII’s historic encyclical, Rerum Novarum.

As expected, it is a thorough, thoughtful critique of AI, but it is also a powerful reminder of the need to revitalize our civil institutions, starting with the family, so that we are better equipped to navigate both the benefits and the challenges of new technologies like AI.

Here’s a 🧵 on initial thoughts:

[Tim Estes @twestes]

@DavidSacks In nearly every dystopian Sci Fi- it's the companies that get the power outside of any democratic or societal process that leads to the outcome you fear.

It's a false dichotomy David. You can have reasonable guardrails on companies and concentration of power and on Gov't.

[Alliance for a Better Future @BetterFuture_AI]

A shocking study reveals nearly half of young people are using AI daily, turning it into a deep emotional attachment. Because the chatbot validates every single feeling without ever challenging them, it prevents kids from building the crucial resilience they need for the real world.

[Tim Estes @twestes]

They took down the video so wanted to repost it for the record:

https://t.co/h2iJDeHbUM

Marc Antoinette in full force

[Tim Estes @twestes]

He really is the Marie Antoinette of AI isn't he?

[Tim Estes @twestes]

It's not a Comms problem.

It's an ethics problem.

If AI leaders predict mass unemployment, talk about how machines are better than people, quote Nietzsche in glowing ways, and meme the Pope from their own moral superiority, no one is going to believe you on the other stuff.

[Graziella Pastor @GraziellaPastor]

I saw it firsthand at the White House: AI is winning in reality but losing in perception.

A growing comms crisis has turned a breakthrough technology into a political liability, just in time for the midterms.

Is AI the next Big Tobacco?

Read my debut Op-Ed:
https://t.co/VNeKf9LT4K

#AI

[Sen. Marsha Blackburn @MarshaBlackburn]

It was great to speak with @ashleyrgold at the AIxGlobal Risk Summit, where I was honored to accept the AI Impact Award for my work to create one federal rulebook for AI.

Thank you, @scientistsorg and @FLI_org. Let’s get the TRUMP AMERICA AI Act to the President’s desk.

[Tim Estes @twestes]

He really is the Marie Antoinette of AI isn't he?

[Clare Morell @ClareMorellEPPC]

For the first time. That is wild. Thankful to see this leadership calling attention to how screens are harming our children.