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From AI built religions on Moltbook to human simulation platforms like RentAHuman, the boundaries between human and machine are already blurring. While Congress debates national frameworks, US states are advancing their own AI transparency and safety laws. In this episode, Alexandra Tsalidis of the Future of Life Institute breaks down how state governments are shaping AI policy, why voters are backing these efforts, and how a growing federal preemption fight could determine who governs AI in America.

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• Alexandra Tsalidis - Future of Life Institute
• Moltbook: AI bots use social network to create religions and deal digital drugs – but are some really humans in disguise?
• The Hill Republican who could get a deal on AI — if his leadership lets him
• ‘Vance Is Handcuffed’: The Tech Fight Bedeviling 2028 Republicans

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In this episode, we sit down with entrepreneur, investor, educator, and author Jeff Burnigham to explore what it truly means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence. The author of bestselling book: The Last Book Written by a Human, Jeff reframes AI not as a technological challenge but as a human one. We discuss why simulated understanding is not the same as lived experience, how love, loss, and wisdom ground us in an age of acceleration, the risks of synthetic relationships and attention capture, and why becoming an anomaly willing to step outside normalized patterns may be essential to shaping a more humane future.

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• Jeff Burningham LinkedIn
• The Last Book Written by a Human
• Podcasting @ The Extraordinary Us

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In this episode of Age of AI, Medlir sits down with Melissa McKay, Founder of the Digital Childhood Institute. They examine how Big Tech platforms and app store gatekeepers have failed to protect kids online. From Google emailing children in order to remove parental controls, to deceptive app age ratings, we discuss how safety breakdowns are not accidents but predictable outcomes of misaligned incentives. Online harm to children is not inevitable. It appears to be designed, normalized, and protected by powerful systems that profit from inaction.

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• Digital Childhood Institute
• Google’s Broken Promise of Safety
• Child Advocates File Landmark FTC Complaint Against Apple Over Pervasive Harms to Kids
• OpenAI, childrens’ advocates join forces on initiative to protect kids from chatbots
• Grok, CSAM, and the Gatekeepers Who Looked Away
• H.B. 273 Classroom Technology Amendments