The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks
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Rumors suggest President Trump may sign an executive order allowing federal punishment of state AI laws, potentially empowering AI czar David Sacks, sparking far-right mobilization against him.
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Washington lawmakers had barely finished processing the news that Congress would not put a state AI law ban into the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) when a new rumor began trickling out of the White House on Wednesday: President Donald Trump would, indeed, sign an executive order that would ostensibly assign the federal government the ability to punish states for writing their own AI laws.
There was the possibility that it would be as drastic as the one that had leaked from the White House weeks before, which would have given David Sacks, billionaire venture capitalist and the White House's AI and crypto czar, immense influence o …