Dear Chairman Flores and committee members, My name is Zach Whiting, and I am a policy director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Thank you for the opportunity to testify in support of SB 20. Below is an excerpt from our comprehensive research paper speaking specifically to the threats posed by AI in creating sexually explicit deepfakes of children.
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What the Vatican gets right, and wrong, about AI
The Catholic Magisterium has long illuminated the unbridgeable gulf between man and any other intelligent being. In the age of AI, its rejection of utility as the measure of human worth matters more than ever, even when its analysis falls short. The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, discovered in rubbish mounds along the River Nile during the era of...
June 24, 2026