TRUMP’S AI CZAR DROPS A BOMB — SACKS SAYS AI IS THE NEW CLIMATE CHANGE AND WASHINGTON IS FALLING FOR IT AGAIN White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks went on offense Sunday and compared the push to regulate artificial intelligence to the climate change movement. He did not mean it as a compliment. Sacks argued that the same pattern is playing out again. A technology gets labeled an existential crisis. Politicians and activists demand sweeping government intervention. Bureaucracies grow. And the country that does not get buried under regulations moves ahead. His target was obvious. Proposals to create an FDA-style approval process for AI models have circulated in Washington for over a year. Sacks pushed back hard. If the United States starts treating new AI models like they need a multi-year safety review before deployment, he said, China will win the race. Not by building better models. Just by building faster. The comparison will frustrate AI safety researchers who have spent years pushing for exactly the kind of oversight Sacks is dismissing. But the White House is not interested in that argument right now. The administration’s position is simple. America leads. Regulation slows things down. Slowing down is how you lose. Whether that logic holds as AI systems become more autonomous is the question nobody in Washington wants to answer. Keywords: David Sacks, AI regulation, White House AI policy, AI safety