“In an era when rapid technological and social changes risk reducing the human person to mere data or economic efficiency, we cannot afford to stand on the sidelines.” As Pope Leo XIV writes in Magnifica Humanitas, our calling is ‘not to be passive spectators of social and cultural fractures, nor mere commentators on what is crumbling, but men and women prepared to enter the construction sites of history… in order to rebuild what has collapsed and protect what is threatened ’.

Having spent my career as a physician caring for human life at its most vulnerable, I am running for office to bring this same commitment to public governance—placing the infinite dignity of every person at the center of our laws, economy, and community.

Thornton adds….

Artificial Intelligence presents great opportunities and dangers to humanity.   To have ethical AI, we must become more ethical. To have consensual management of AI, we must have the ability to reach universal consensus.  The race is not to build AGI but to exist with AGI.  The loners who seek to control AGI and SuperAI by their own human power will lose.  The immediate harm by AI is the greater abuse of power by the very few wealthy who control AI.