OpenAI, Google, and xAI have APIs that have access to thousands of companies’ data - nearly every software tool you’ve used is now connected to an API at one of these companies. This means that an AI has touched and indexed that data: every email, document, search, website you’ve visited, text message sent, contact you’ve entered, social media post you’ve made. Every file on a Microsoft device if you’ve enabled with Copilot, every file on an Android with Gemini enabled. A digital trail spanning the last two decades at least could be assembled in an instant, mapping out every correspondence within your social network and every intimate thought you’ve documented in writing that you assumed would be kept private.

We need Congressmembers to create an oversight panel that reviews any and all contractual language relating to uses of AI with domestic data and proactively creates new legislation that protects people from problematic abuses of power that are currently enabled by US laws including the Patriot Act and now accelerated by AI. These laws must incorporate severe, deterrent penalties, such as decades of imprisonment, for any individual who instructs humans or AI to assemble or utilizes AI tools capable of compiling dossiers from any person's private data without both prior judicial review and notification of the target, in order to prevent abuse and safeguard individual liberties.