“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
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On the recordJune 27, 2022
I take this work seriously, because I have heard time and again from tribal leaders who have been frustrated by policy decisions being made without Native voices at the table.
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Tina Smith
Democratic · Minnesota
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Senator Smith acknowledges the frustration of tribal leaders regarding their exclusion from policy decisions.

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