J. MICHAEL WALLER: The GUARD Act would force everyone to upload or provide access to verifiable ID - government ID, facial or other biometrics scan, personally identifiable data such as credit records - to ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, etc., in order to log on.

Thought the Facebook & Twitter collusion with the Comey/Wray FBI was bad?

Look at what the Senate has in mind for you: the consolidation of personal identity, thought records, and AI-driven psychometrics into the hands of a few politicized, government-entangled corporations.… pic.twitter.com/satcoNVvW2

— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) May 4, 2026

Thought the Facebook & Twitter collusion with the Comey/Wray FBI was bad? Look at what the Senate has in mind for you: the consolidation of personal identity, thought records, and AI-driven psychometrics into the hands of a few politicized, government-entangled corporations. Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee, in a 22-0 vote, approved the GUARD Act (S.3062), designed to "protect kids" in interacting with AI chatbots, which by its broadness would include LLM models. The GUARD Act would force everyone to upload or provide access to verifiable ID - government ID, facial or other biometrics scan, personally identifiable data such as credit records - to ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, etc., in order to log on. Individual citizens would be given no opt-out option. The bill would freeze your accounts until you submit. The GUARD Act’s breadth would effectively turn general‑purpose AI chatbots into identity‑linked psychological logging systems. The same architecture that GUARD mandates for “protecting kids” becomes, in less scrupulous hands, a turnkey platform for surveillance and psychological operations against the broader population down to the individual level. It's opaque and permanent. The primary cosponsors of the GUARD Act are

@SenTomCotton

and Senator

@HawleyMO

, two really good guys. There is still time to add amendments to protect kids and protect our Constitutional rights at the same time.