David Sacks Sounds Alarm Over Democrats' Most Terrifying Censorship Plan Yet

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David Sacks Sounds Alarm Over Democrats' Most Terrifying Censorship Plan Yet David Sacks, who stepped down as President Trump's AI and crypto czar in March, says it's "100%" that…

David Sacks, who stepped down as President Trump's AI and crypto czar in March, says it's "100%" that the Democrats who just won Congress will make a major push for AI legislation, and that the end state is "a surveillance and censorship state that's turbocharged by superintelligence."

Sacks was answering co-host Jason Calacanis on the All-In podcast released Nov. 7. Calacanis asked for odds on a scenario co-host David Friedberg had laid out, in which only the government can use the tools. Sacks said he didn't think it would go that far, then laid out the road map he does expect: "You create a department, a federal department of AI. You require that all the so-called frontier models have to be reviewed and approved by that."

"The regulators give their notes on it. You can't get a model released unless you address their concerns," Sacks said. Those concerns, in his telling, would be "disinformation and misinformation and dissonant thought" - "all the things that the government was pressuring the social media companies to crack down on and censor during COVID."

"They're going to basically reenact that whole regime again using AI. And it's going to be infinitely more powerful because we're talking about superintelligence here," Sacks said. "So I do believe that that is the regime that we're headed towards."

The warning came four days after Democrats swept the midterms. According to Reuters, Democrats plan a wave of AI and data-center bills when they take control in January, among them a push by Rep. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) to have independent experts test leading AI models against safety standards and rules on when AI companies can be held liable for harm. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) has promised hearings and "reasonable guardrails on AI," accusing Trump and congressional Republicans of a "conscious decision" to "let the AI industry run wild."

Michigan's Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed ran on something close to the department Sacks describes.

Before the election, Senate Majority…

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