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And a human stays in the loop. Binding safety rules for the most capable AI systems, tested before deployment with incidents reported. A human in the loop for every life-or-death decision, and nuclear decisions categorically human. Your face, your voice, and your name belong to you: enforce the takedown law, give victims the right to sue, pass the NO FAKES Act, and outlaw counterfeit candidates with parody explicitly protected. Where health, safety, or personal freedom is at stake, AI is proven safe in the job before it takes the job; everywhere else, Washington stays out of Montana's businesses. Alani Bankhead on the Issues — Democrat for U.S. Senate in Montana POSITIONS Skip to content Positions","source_url":"https://WWW.ALANIFORMT.COM/positions","source_date":"2026-09-17"},{"topic":"Healthcare","stance":"Healthcare","detail":"We already know universal healthcare works. Millions of Americans already get their care through TRICARE, the military’s own government-run program, and we can pay to expand access by cutting the hundreds of billions we waste on paperwork and the drug middlemen, not anyone’s care. And we keep rural hospitals open by protecting the Medicare and Medicaid payments they depend on.","source_url":"https://WWW.ALANIFORMT.COM/positions","source_date":"2026-09-16"},{"topic":"Healthcare","stance":"Healthcare","detail":"We already know universal healthcare works. Millions of Americans already get their care through TRICARE, the military’s own government-run program, and we can pay to expand access by cutting Pentagon waste, not anyone’s care. 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In frontier Montana those flights are how you reach Billings for care, and Wolf Point sits 212 air miles from the","source_url":"https://WWW.ALANIFORMT.COM/positions","source_date":"2026-08-02"},{"topic":"Agriculture","stance":"energy future, and my first priority is keeping power affordable and reliable. Rural families and farmers already stretch every… Special Education Keep the promise Washington made to our kids. Every p","detail":"energy future, and my first priority is keeping power affordable and reliable. Rural families and farmers already stretch every… Special Education Keep the promise Washington made to our kids. Every parent of a child with an IEP knows the drill: fight to get the services, then fight again to keep them. Washington promised to pay 40% of the cost and pays about 13%, so that fight lands on Montana classrooms and Montana families. Jobs & Wages A day’s work should cover a day’s life. 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