Zohran Mamdani:  "Let me first address the house-phishing example. This is what happens when realtors are using AI to generate images of apartments that are not actually on the market. It also speaks to this belief that we're seeing across many sectors, that if you use AI, then you are inhibited from the consequences of it... Lina Khan has spoken about this, which is that for all of this talk of AI as a technology of the future, it also obfuscates the fact that the laws of today can still be used to hold that technology accountable." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

@ZohranKMamdani on AI: "Out of purpose comes dignity. "If we see the erasure of purpose of all these different kinds of jobs, we have a larger conversation to have about the dignity of that work for those who are left to still be employed." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

Lina Khan on AI: "These are individuals that have become used to a certain level of impunity, elite impunity that I think we've talked about in the past as being a broader cultural, social phenomena that results when we're not holding the rich and the powerful to the same rules and the same standards that we do to everybody else. I think there are a lot of magazine profiles and other assessments looking at what these individuals as a personal matter and their character. I think to me, some of that is a little bit less interesting than this basic question of: Who is deciding in the first instance what trajectory these technologies take? And whenever you have a tiny number of elites getting to call the shots around this potentially transformational technology, that is gonna be dangerous even if you have the most benevolent, well-meaning people in the driver's seat. It really comes down to the concentration of power." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

KeShaun Pearson on xAI's data center buildout in Memphis: “We continue to see what is a cancerous buildout of hyperscale data centers. We went from 1 to 4. We went from 15 gas turbines to over 50. And our communities which have been red lined are now facing another era of digital redlining" From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

Anand Giridharadas: "Over the last three years, I've watched the ads in the subway go from a kind of broad spectrum of all the things in our economy to being, in some of the trains, only AI ads... would you support banning AI ads in the New York City subway?" Lina Khan: "Look, there's absolutely something supremely dystopian about that image." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

@AnandWrites asks @linamkhan about how many of the same people who opposed her also popped up in the Epstein emails: "You told me something I won't forget. You said whether in one sphere of life or another, these are men who don't like to be told no." At our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

Lorena Gonzalez of the California Federation of Labor Unions on getting harmful AI tech banned before they spread too far: "Let's prohibit it before it becomes, too big to fail, if you will, till employers say we can't live without this, which we almost were too late... And it should've been obvious, and I can't even believe it was a fight, but we had a bill say: no bosses in the bathroom. You know, it's always been the law that your boss cannot videotape you or audiotape you in the bathroom, but guess what? AI has a lot of ways to monitor you in the bathroom, including heat mapping and everything else. And guess what? I don't care, Amazon. You can no longer do that in any bathroom in California." At our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

Naomi Klein: So how do you treat surplus humanity? Your function then, you do have an economic function. It isn't to consume, and it isn't to work. It is to be surveilled, it is to be killed, as Arundhati just said. It's to be contained, to be scanned. And Israel has been running a experiment, since they sealed Gaza in about 20 years ago, built the wall, placed Gaza under siege, and they have been testing these technologies. So I mean this is why it's so absurd that we're saying, "Oh, something bad might happen in the future." We already have an AI-aided genocide in Palestine. So Gaza, Minneapolis, look at what is happening now in France. Like, look what would happen when young people in France stood up and said, "Fix the roof of our of our classroom instead of spending so much money on weapons." Like, that was their core demand: "We want to cool our classrooms instead of spending more and more of the French budget on the military," and look at the way the French state crushed them, right? So, that's a glimpse of the future. At our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

Memphis organizer KeShaun Pearson: "When people are being oppressed, resilience is the only answer. And in Memphis and in Tennessee, we got a special brand of resilience. In addition to that we got this funny-looking person, Elon. For those who don't know, the richest person on paper. I wanna see receipts. But he's been able to do unconscionable things and things that should worry us about our democracy. The power dynamics of Memphis have totally been changed. Our elected officials have banned me, myself, my brother, and other organization leaders from a city council meeting tomorrow about a data center moratorium." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute

Zohran Mamdani: "When we're talking about data centers, the environmental impacts that come with this, I think one of the things that I really have appreciated from our governor is the implementation of a moratorium on data center construction across the state of New York. That is critically important. And in a country that is so unbelievably polarized, to see data centers as one of the few things that cuts across party lines, where you see Republicans and Democrats who do not want to see these kinds of things being constructed." From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute