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Ryan Kennedy

Ryan Kennedy

Chief of Operations at Florida Citizens Alliance and conservative policy advocate, recurring commentator on Steve Bannon's War Room.

Oct 7, 2026

90:03
Is that going to be part of your efforts, Florida Citizens Alliance efforts in the upcoming session, legislative session, regular session, presumably to get this, these things codified?
90:15
Yes, correct, yes.
90:16
And definitely for this upcoming legislative session, we've already heard rumors that the legislative leadership coming in wants to deal with this issue of AI, both in the school system but also outside.
90:29
When it comes to the schools, real quick, I'll just make a mention, and also outside.
90:34
You know, one of the biggest things that we're concerned about is, of course, making sure that students have the foundational skills necessary.
90:42
So when you're talking about, like, elementary school kids, that they're still using pen and paper.
90:47
They are not being introduced to these kinds of tools that early because we already see the research that kids at the lower grade levels need to have those foundational skills first.

7 MINS LATER

98:28
You know, Mike, we had Chris Messina, who is a candidate for Orange County mayor here in Central Florida, and Mike was asking, because Orange County closed seven public schools, why not an effort to turn those schools into charter schools? Are you seeing that happening anywhere else in the state, Ryan?
37:40
Ryan Kennedy, what are you doing to protect young folks down in the state of Florida?
37:45
Thank you for having me on, Steve.
37:47
Really, our focus is trying to protect the young kids, just like you said, from access to these chatbots and from their data being sold to the highest bidder, truthfully.
37:58
So we jumped in because of the scary facts.
38:02
just as you mentioned in your last segment, amongst others.
38:05
And what we're trying to do is to put some guardrails in place to protect parents' rights, to make sure that parents have to opt their child in before they're allowed to use AI in a school setting, require age verification and ban children from under 18 from using chatbots.
38:23
And then also to protect their student data and their children's data, make sure that parents are in control of it and make sure that what's being taught in schools doesn't conflict with what we've already passed here in Florida and with our Western civilizational worldview.
39:40
Do you view what you're trying to put in to this as slowing down the development of artificial intelligence? Or is it just the applications where it deals with children of citizens of Florida?

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