Support AI—Protect Privacy

Restore Ownership of Personal Data in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is one of the most promising technologies ever created. I strongly support the continued development of AI and believe it has the potential to improve education, medicine, science, business, creativity, and everyday life.

By giving up vital personal information, we gradually lose control over our own lives. As AI becomes more capable and more deeply integrated into society, individuals must retain ownership and authority over their own data. We should never be placed in a position where our personal information gives artificial intelligence companies lasting power over us. AI should remain a tool that serves humanity—not a system to which people are expected to surrender their privacy or autonomy.

I urge Congress and state legislatures to pass legislation establishing the following rights for every AI user:

1. Privacy by Default: All conversations, prompts, uploaded files, images, audio, and other user-provided information must be permanently deleted after use unless the user has explicitly chosen to retain that information.

2. Simple Permanent Deletion: Every AI company must provide a clear, easy-to-find, one-click method allowing users to permanently delete all of their personal data at any time inside the chat.

3. Complete Erasure: When a user requests deletion, all personal data must be removed from active systems, archived databases, backup systems, and any other storage within a legally defined period, except where retention is specifically required by law.

4. No Retention Without Consent: AI companies must not retain, reuse, or use personal data for AI training, profiling, marketing, or any other purpose unless the user has given explicit, informed, and voluntary consent.

5. Meaningful Accountability: Companies that fail to comply with these requirements must face substantial legal penalties, regulatory enforcement, and civil liability. Privacy rights are only meaningful if they are backed by enforceable law.

Artificial intelligence should work for people, not the other way around. People should be able to enjoy all the benefits of AI without sacrificing permanent control over their personal information.

This petition is not against AI. It is for responsible AI—AI that respects privacy, protects individual freedom, and recognizes that personal data belongs to the individual, not to the company that collects it.

As AI becomes increasingly powerful and integrated into every aspect of society, the law must guarantee every person the right to permanent deletion of their personal information and make that right simple to exercise. No one should be required to navigate complicated procedures or trust unverifiable promises that their information has been erased.

Support AI. Protect Privacy. Restore Ownership of Personal Data. Pass a law requiring AI companies to delete personal data by default, provide simple permanent deletion at any time, and hold violators legally accountable.

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My Beloved!

What are you?

Perhaps,

the distant memories of a rowdy child.

The goosebumps in the cold, dark cinema with a frosty Pepsi in hand.

Perhaps,

the garlic flavor of a bologna sandwich, the orange of a Fanta,

or the salty flavor of doogh*.

You’re the burning sensation, the sting of punishment

in the palms of my hands.

The painful strikes of the merciless flog

for my sloppy homework or being late to school.

You’re every word I misspelled when taking dictation.

You’re the sweet steam of baked beets on a street vendor’s cart.

You’re the stripes of the plastic balls I kicked as a child.

You’re as dark and gooey as melted tar,

stuck to the soles of my bare feet in the summer heat of Ahvaz.

You’re the brawls I had with friends on school breaks.

My sore throat, my doctor's excuse.

You are my ruthless teachers in third grade and fourth—

the slap in the face,