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Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence

Published December 4, 2025 | Video Starts at 05:39

But if you were choosing a handful of companies to lead the charge against China, the big tech companies would be the last ones you want to do. They're not trying to beat China. They want to sell to China. Are you kidding me? All these companies have made a lot of money in China and. And many of them want to make a lot more money in China. (05:39–05:43)

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Asserts that Big Tech companies are more interested in selling to China than competing against it.

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“There was a proposal in the US Congress to impose a 10-year moratorium on any state regulation of artificial intelligence.”
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“That was stripped out of a bill 99 to 1 in the U.S. Senate.”
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“Hyperscale data center typically consumes as much power as a city of a half a million people, sometimes even more than that.”
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“The incentives of Big Tech are not the same as what's in the interest of the people and the public.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 02:27-02:36
“The incentives of Big Tech is to maximize profits off of this.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 02:35-02:40
“They're talking about jamming it into the defense authorization bill.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 03:51-03:56
“If you were choosing a handful of companies to lead the charge against China, the big tech companies would be the last ones you want to do.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 05:30-05:40
“All these companies have made a lot of money in China and many of them want to make a lot more money in China.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 05:43-05:48
“TikTok in China is much different than it is in the United States.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 07:02-07:06
“China doesn't allow [the negatives of TikTok] to happen to their kids.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 07:10-07:13
“Some of the other states have tried to do things to subsidize the growth of artificial intelligence with special privileges.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 07:40-07:50
“Once [a data center is] built, it's like 10 jobs. And they usually bring in foreigners for those jobs.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 08:00-08:06
“They give them property tax, so they don't pay that either.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 08:18-08:22
“One of the selling points of people who really are gung ho about artificial intelligence is that it's going to cause a lot of job losses.”
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“A lot of the answers [from LLMs] are inaccurate.”
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“A lot of the quotes [from LLMs] can be fabricated.”
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“We're going to be proposing, and we're going to work with the legislature to establish an artificial intelligence bill of rights for…”
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“This will be very far reaching with consumer protections. It will do things like fortify some of the protections we have in place for things…”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 18:33-18:50
“We're not going to allow any state or local government agency to utilize Chinese created AI tools when they're doing data.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 18:54-19:04
“We're going to protect consumers and individuals from having your name, image and likeness weaponized in a way that can do you harm.”
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“We have a legal framework in place already with some of our statutes about fraud and different things with parts of political as.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 19:18-19:29
“We will provide more parental rights. In this bill, we're going to ensure parents can access conversations their child has with one of these…”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 22:14-22:28
“Parent will be able to set parameters for when the child can access any of these platforms.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 22:28-22:34
“There'll be notifications for parents required if the child exhibits concerning behavior.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 22:34-22:41
“We did a social media bill for minors and help parents with that. And basically we said if you're 14 or under, the company can't issue an…”
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“We will not allow companies to sell or share personal identifying information with third parties.”
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“We'll make sure that, for example, if you file an insurance claim that you can't just be denied by AI, that you got to have human review.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 24:09-24:18
“In the state of Florida, we will prohibit all utilities from charging Florida residents more, whether that's water, electric, gas, you name…”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 27:27-27:44
“We will also protect taxpayers by providing and prohibiting subsidies to hyperscale data center construction.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 27:43-27:53
“We're going to protect local control, to ensure and codify that local governments have the right to reject the construction of a hyperscale…”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 27:52-28:04
“We'll protect Florida's water resources by making sure those resources are plentiful for Floridians and that we continue making strides with…”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 28:03-28:16
“Natural Florida by preventing any construction or siting, you know, of a data center by foreigners or in areas classified for agriculture or…”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 28:18-28:33
“We're going to make sure that Florida Department of Transportation does a noise review to make sure that Floridians aren't bothered by the…”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 28:32-28:44
“What we were are proposing will be the most significant protections for individuals anywhere in the country by far.”
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“We're not doing any of that. What we're doing is things that are going to make sure that we put Floridians first.”
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“There could have been things that were done that would have created a better structure so that that would have been channeled in ways that…”
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“We're not going to allow any of these AI to hold themselves out as any type of licensed professional.”
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“They're already putting ads now in one of the chatgpts.”
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“I personally had discussions with President Ben Albritton in the Florida Senate, leader of the Florida Senate.”
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“I was looking at Congress trying to do a 10 year moratorium to strip the states of rights to act in this area.”
Governor DeSantis Proposes Citizen Bill of Rights for Artificial Intelligence | Uploaded December 4, 2025 | 41:42-41:50
“A 10-year moratorium as a matter of policy [would] strip the state's [rights].”
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“A lot of these guys ran on limiting the federal government and having, you know, allowing states to be able to pursue policies.”
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“If you ask most Florida residents, would you support a Florida approach or would you want Congress to do it? I think most people would…”
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