David Sacks
Co-chair, PCAST; general partner, Craft Ventures · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Venture capitalist and All-In host who was Trump's AI and crypto czar until March 2026 and remains a leading opponent of AI-safety regulation.
Role changes
- 2026-03-26 Ended his stint as White House AI and crypto czar and became co-chair of PCAST source
News mentioning David Sacks (5)
- Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House; they sign a voluntary 'morally binding' Accord on Superintelligence, and Trump rejects new federal AI rules ★★★★
On Sept 29, 2026 President Trump hosted about 31 tech leaders and officials at a White House lunch on whether and how to regulate AI, after a month of lab leaders calling for a slowdown. Guests included Amodei, Brockman, Pichai, Zuckerberg, Huang, Nadella, Musk and Speaker Mike Johnson. Afterwards…
- Model Republic traces the September anti-'AI safety' online campaign to Innovation Council Action, a $100M pro-AI dark-money group ★★
On Sept 25, 2026 Tyler Johnston (The Midas Project) published an analysis in Model Republic arguing that the wave of attacks on AI-safety advocates in September, which called safety concerns a "psyop" or a "cult", was coordinated by Innovation Council Action, a nonprofit led by former White House…
- Trump says he will form an 'AI Force' and name an AI czar, while calling AI-safety fears a 'hoax' ★★★
In a Truth Social post on Saturday Sept 19, 2026, President Trump said he would form an "AI Force", "much like I did Space Force", and soon name an AI czar ("Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!"). He said the government would "not in any way hinder or stifle" the industry and would police "BAD"…
- Dario Amodei and Gavin Baker debate AI regulation on X; David Sacks says Amodei wants a "DMV for AI" ★★
On 2026-08-15 Dario Amodei posted a rare long reply on X to investor Gavin Baker, who had argued that Amodei's warnings fed the US backlash against AI and data centers and that "Dario has lost the argument". Amodei called "concentrate via regulation vs. distribute widely" a false choice and backed…
- Anthropic says it has never advocated a ban on open-weights models, after Jensen Huang's industry letter ★★★
On July 27, 2026 Dario Amodei published "Our position on open-weights models", stating that Anthropic has never advocated banning open-weights models as a category. It came days after an open letter organised by Nvidia's Jensen Huang, signed by Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Hugging Face and others…
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- Dario Amodei replies to Gavin Baker on regulation, open weights and AI messaging original ↗ Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei · x · 2026-08-15
A rare long-form X reply in which Amodei backs pre-deployment testing of frontier and near-frontier open-weights models and rejects the claim that his warnings drove the AI backlash.
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