1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

Urgent Bipartisan Action: Protecting Humanity from Technological Excess The convergence of AI, VR, and transhumanist technologies demands immediate bipartisan action to safeguard human dignity, privacy, and societal stability. Critical threats include: • Neurological harm: VR alters brain structure, causing addiction and dissociation, while Neuralink’s trials show brain-computer interfaces risk hacking and data exploitation. • Economic disruption: AI displaces jobs unprecedentedly-30 million use Replika AI instead of human interaction, and OnlyFans chatbots automate creator income. • Social fragmentation: Personalized VR/AR erodes shared reality, threatening democracy. • Existential risks: Sex robots ($175,000+ models) and AI child simulations commodify human bonds. EU’s digital cohesion framework offers lessons: unchecked technological power widens inequality and undermines civil society. Meanwhile, 17.4% of adults engage with sex robots, normalizing artificial intimacy over authentic relationships. Recommended actions: 1. Regulate strictly: Ban AI sexbots, child simulations, and non-therapeutic neural enhancements. 2. Ensure transparency: Mandate algorithmic audits and data-use disclosures for VR/AI platforms. 3. Invest in research: Study long-term cognitive, social, and economic impacts. 4. Protect workers: Fund retraining and explore universal creative income amid AI displacement. These technologies should be relegated to emergency use only-yet even limited roles risk normalizing dehumanization. The choice is clear: subordinate technological growth to human flourishing, or surrender to digital dystopia. I urge bipartisan collaboration to preserve our shared humanity.