David Sacks, now co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, used his platform to push for policies that prioritize innovation, infrastructure, energy, and exports in the AI race. He tied this stance directly to a recent report showing a Chinese model closing the gap with Anthropic’s top cybersecurity tools, suggesting that heavier U.S. restrictions may have contributed to the shift rather than prevented it.
A year ago, President Trump declared that America was in a global AI race and that the way to win it was to be pro-innovation, pro-infrastructure, pro-energy, and pro-export. President Trump was exactly right; we deviate from that strategy at our peril.
An investor reply in the thread questioned whether the current clampdowns truly explain the narrowed gap, pointing back to earlier calls for lighter-touch approaches under the prior administration.
The post arrives shortly after Sacks moved from White House AI and Crypto Czar into the broader PCAST co-chair seat, giving his comments added weight on where U.S. strategy should head next.
Many users back Sacks urging pro-innovation policies to win the global AI race against China, while others insult him or dismiss AI as unnecessary and failing.
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@DavidSacks So who do we blame for the current export controls and centralized permissioning?
Is there going to be a new AI Czar?
A year ago, President Trump declared that America was in a global AI race and that the way to win it was to be pro-innovation, pro-infrastructure, pro-energy, and pro-export. President Trump was exactly right; we deviate from that strategy at our peril.
Every day we slow down American labs is another day China has to catch up in capabilities and doubly in terms of market share.
A year ago, President Trump declared that America was in a global AI race and that the way to win it was to be pro-innovation, pro-infrastructure, pro-energy, and pro-export. President Trump was exactly right; we deviate from that strategy at our peril.
@DavidSacks so pickup the phone, call lutnick and tell him to fuck off with these export controls
@DavidSacks No one wants the Epstein Class deciding who can use AI.
@DavidSacks FIX IT NOW SACKS MY AMERICAN AI COMPANY SHARES NEED TO GO PUBLIC I NEED TO DUMP THIS SHIT ON NORMIES ASAP FIX IT
A year ago, President Trump declared that America was in a global AI race and that the way to win it was to be pro-innovation, pro-infrastructure, pro-energy, and pro-export. President Trump was exactly right; we deviate from that strategy at our peril.
@DavidSacks My grandpapa was a bright man, he was my granddad’s brother, and he used to say that while many countries would clash openly, China would advance quietly and then move in a blink. What we’re seeing now reflects that across a multitude of domains and industries.
@DavidSacks You know what would be better for the US AI race? US created open models.
To have 2 or 3 major LLM companies dictating how the country should use/create AI is a real issue.
@DavidSacks It sounds like you don't have faith in Congress being able to formulate cutting edge technological challenges in real time.
@DavidSacks
@DavidSacks Yes to guardrails, no holding models
@DavidSacks America First = Ruin the life of 28 year old software engineer from Columbus, OH to “beat China”. This is why @AOC will probably be President in 2032. Don’t complain when it happens.
@DavidSacks No one has explained why it’s imperative that WE MUST “beat” China?
@DavidSacks Then why are we stopping anthropic and open AI from releasing their best models?
@DavidSacks So much for being the anti-regulation president. You remember right?
The guy that wanted to trim two federal organizations removed for every one added?
@DavidSacks 感谢美国的制裁和封锁，安心持有中国芯片etf，euv会有的，gpu会有的，hbm会有的，前沿llm会有的。🙏🏻
You cannot get the same product for .10/month. Even the famed GLM-5.2 lags severely behind previous frontier models, let alone the new frontier like Fable.
And labs can protect themselves well enough. They don’t need USG. Anthropic telling about Alibaba’s efforts shows exactly that they are aware, they can detect this behavior and apply countermeasures to limit it. You can never stop all leaks, but you can limit them to just that, small leakage.
USG on the other hand doesn’t even understand the technology. They cannot do anything to help, only to hurt with their rushed and misinformed actions.
@DavidSacks this is all still happening in the USA but just for the US government.
Anthropic and OpenAI have given the US government early access to any new frontier models before anyone else.
in the eyes of Trump, they are winning.
private industry is losing.
@Wirenut3388 @DavidSacks Oh, wait for the democrats to cut regulations? Good luck
@pitdesi @DavidSacks Wiles/Lutnick/Bessent, with a dash of Dario (but tbh it probably would've happened without him).
That’s an absolutely wrong comparison point. No one has leaked nuclear codes because nuclear weapons never was an at-scale commercial industry. You don’t serve them to the world, like with AI models.
You cannot scale fast and prioritize utmost security at the same time. America currently dominates the tech industry because it focuses on scaling, having lax regulations and lots of open standards it authored, while Europe tries to focus on regulation and security, losing frontier markets one after another as it is nothing but a slow elephant after taking on all of this security fat.
DARPA creating open standard allowed for it to become a global one, giving us digital world with no borders and customs, allowing USA to then exploit it to globalize its tech industry, where some Russia or China cannot block Twitter in it’s entirety, without contractions popping here and there, even if it wants to.
Open AI will give the same golden age to USA, allowing it to penetrate all corners of the world, while competition stays constrained.
But if USA will prefer to slow down to a crawl, others, like China, won’t sleep on it. And given enough regulation, even Europe may catch up, let alone Middle East with massive investments from the Gulf.