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Speaker 1: and it is really being underreported on. It is kids

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Speaker 1: being targeted by their peers. It is AI and deep

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Speaker 1: fake technology. There are people now and the air programs

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Speaker 1: on the show before that Barack Obama coming in to

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Speaker 1: Now we're going to talk about that, but there's something

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Speaker 1: now before we get into the deep fake aspect of this,

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Speaker 1: I want to lay some groundwork, and just so you

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Speaker 1: It's shocking now it's scary. It's a wild West, and

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Speaker 2: And look, when you and I were kids, we didn't

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Speaker 2: You know, when I was a teenager, my parents would

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Speaker 2: would have me. I'd like, you know, lay on the

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Speaker 2: that are these portals to just about everything evil in

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Speaker 2: the world, sexual predators, to bullies, to people just targeting

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Speaker 2: our kids. And you know what's interesting, Ben So in

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Speaker 2: the Senate, as you know, look, there are a lot

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Speaker 2: of people who are really damn old. I mean a

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Speaker 2: even nineties, and I got to admit that my colleagues

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Speaker 2: you know, their kids weren't dealing with it when their

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Speaker 2: often less connected to it than they would be. And

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Speaker 2: what's interesting is the people that I'm joining with the

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Speaker 2: senators that are teaming up with me on this, both

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Speaker 2: Democrats and Republicans. Almost all of them are either in

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Speaker 2: their forties and fifties. They're younger senators, and almost all

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Speaker 2: of us have kids that are either teenagers or adolescents.

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Speaker 2: And almost to a person, if you're a parent and

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Speaker 2: you've got kids who are younger, so you're just starting

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Speaker 2: to face this, but I'm sure you're worried about it now,

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Speaker 2: and I promise you in five or ten years, you're

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Speaker 2: going to be terrified about it because every parent I

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Speaker 2: know is makes you.

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