David Sacks is chair of the White House’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and a former White House AI & Crypto Czar; a venture investor (Craft Ventures) and PayPal-mafia figure who has become one of the administration’s most visible voices on AI policy.
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2026-10-02: Publicly defended the White House AI safety pact against Sen. Sanders and Rep. Khanna, arguing it has independent audits, board oversight, and existing FTC/securities-law backing. Benzinga (independent)
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2026-09-15: OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed OpenAI, demishassabis’s DeepMind, and darioamodei’s Anthropic have held weeks of direct safety-coordination talks, tracing back to a July Hassabis proposal for a US-led oversight body that could trigger industry-wide slowdowns – the same “pace the frontier” push Sacks has called a cartel. Bloomberg (independent)
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2026-09-14: Publicly called darioamodei, sama, and elonmusk’s “pace the frontier” AI-slowdown push a “cartel,” accusing them of seeking an antitrust exemption and calling their named evaluator, METR, not independent since it’s “intertwined with Anthropic’s investors and staff” CDM · Washington Examiner