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Sen. Tuberville emphasized the importance of AI education to prevent from potential online scams.\n\nExcerpts from Sen. Tuberville’s remarks can be found below or viewed on YouTube or Rumble.\n\nTUBERVILLE: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We got a mess. We know it. You know, technology—it brings us more and more every day. We’ve heard the problems. My solution is education.\n\nAt a young age, Baby Boomers are in trouble because we’re all gonna get scammed one way or another. And not just domestically, but internationally, I mean, it’s big time. I hear a lot of problems with that. So, Mr. Ferraro, how do we fix this? We got the problem. Give us a solution. I’m gonna ask everybody this. So, get your solution ready.”\n\nFERRARO: “Senator, there is no silver bullet as Mr. Winters said, but I do think that education is very powerful. And if you’re looking for an example, I would point the committee to the example of Finland, which has been very aggressive in teaching both young and old. This is in my written testimony about both this information more broadly, but synthetic media, particularly. And they’ve found that it works that you can actually instruct people to be on the lookout for false media. As Mr. Benda said, pause before you send any money, double check, do all the things that we should do before we make any rash decisions.\n\nAnd I do think education is quite important. As I said, I think from a government perspective, interagency cooperation is key here. This is an area where there isn’t now a quarterback to use a metaphor in the government on these issues. And I think that is something that the committee might want to consider, and I know that there are some bills pending for the committee on those issues.\n\nAnd third, as I mentioned in my testimony, I think the technology piece is important as well. I mean, just draw the analysis or the analogy rather to email spam. You receive thousands of pieces of spam every day. You just don’t happen to see them because they’re filtered out by spam filters. One could imagine a situation where similar technology operates in the background on your browser or on your phone to either tag or remove AI generated media.\n\nAnd that the technology largely exists now, it’s just a matter of integrating it. So, I’ll offer those.”\n\nTUBERVILLE: “Well, if you do anything in life, you know, the big thing is when you get a manual, you get ethics with it first and the same thing with AI. We have to teach our kids ethics. Again, a lot of us are lost and gone. But our young kids can learn it. Mr. Benda, you have worked for DHS and DOW—give us your solution.”\n\nBENDA: “I assume so. I think you’re right. Education is a key pillar. I think you start out young. I think having a national campaign on how to fight AI deep fakes, how to fight scams and fraud is important.\n\nABA runs financial literacy programs for children. Integrating the AI threat into that and scam threat into that is something that we’re looking at doing. I think the national campaign could address people of all ages. And I have hope for boomers, sir. I have some boomers that I love, my mother-in-law, in one particular.\n\nAnd I think the focus needs to be on also a safe banking for seniors. So how do we get the message to them in channels that they respect and they use? Whether it’s directly from a banker or from people they trust. And the other piece I would point to is we have to enable and stop the tech companies from allowing the impersonation that happens out there. 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