This week on The Impact, Addie and Hal trace a quiet but seismic shift: power moving from elected leaders to the systems they’ve built. From New York courtrooms to classrooms to campaign inboxes, AI is no longer a side project—it’s infrastructure. But when the President signals that advanced tech will be used to police speech, the stakes hit constitutional level. Addie unpacks what that means for free expression and for anyone running a campaign or advocacy shop, while Hal presses on the practical: how do you move fast without surrendering control?

They dig into New York’s new AI court rules, and the federal stall that’s leaving states and vendors to set the standards. The question running beneath it all: when machines start enforcing the boundaries of public speech, who decides where those lines go?