Sacks steers Trump's AI policy, prioritizing open-weight models over safety warnings

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Vox portrays David Sacks as a central adviser to Donald Trump on AI who argues against government safety regulation, champions open-weight/open-source AI, and has shaped Trump’s stance—including openness to Chinese chip sales—while clashing with OpenAI and Anthropic and sparking debate over how best to balance innovation, safety, and national security in the AI race.
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- Trump's former AI czar tells Anthropic and OpenAI to slow down, and to stop asking for anything in return The Next Web
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