David Sachs

And the bias can be so subtle that people don't even necessarily notice over time, but it has a huge impact on what people are allowed to learn and think and know and what children learn.

And so I think it's very important that we try to make sure that AI was politically unbiased.

So they're just in this regard.

One of the things that we were so concerned about with that by an executive order on AI that we were send it in the first week is that I had 20 pages of language on DEI and it was promoting this idea that AI models need to build in a DEI layer.

Well,

you know, this is how you ended up with, you know, the Black George Washington, you know, story where the first version of Gemini came out and it was, you know, it was basically rewriting history to serve a current political agenda of DEI.

And, you know, that was in a way that that case of bias was so ludicrous that everyone kind of laughed at it.

But it gives you a sense of

what could happen if you start to build the bias into AI.

And, you know, that same, you know, so-called trust and safety apparatus that was starting to be built into social media sites as a way to censor and de-platform and shadow ban, you could see that being built into AI models as a way to control the public discourse in a very serious way.

And I think that

President Trump, again, just put a total halt to that, rescinded that.

But it was also, we also, President Trump signed an executive order saying that the federal government would not procure politically biased AI.

So look, on a First Amendment basis, if an AI company wants its AI to be biased in some direction, they probably have a First Amendment right to do that.

But we

have as the federal government have the discretion not to buy that software.

And we've said that we won't.

So I feel very good that during President Trump's term in office for the next three years, this idea of Orwellian AI is not going to be a problem.

But I do worry that at some point in the future, if you had a different regime in Washington,

You know, if the federal government started to pressure AI companies to build in this political bias, that would be a very serious threat, I think, to to our freedoms.