George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the tech industry has been so blatant and clumsy and incompetent that he's made what Banner calls the AI supremacists look bad, that he's defeating his own cause.
And I heard this from others, too.
One former official said to me, yeah, he's won the battles.
He's gotten crypto-
The backing of Washington.
He's kept Washington's hands off AI, but he's losing the war because he's actually alienating some important parts of the MAGA coalition, including members of Congress who Sachs sort of pushed hard to prevent –
bills or amendments that would have put American companies ahead of China for those valuable AI chips, an amendment called the Gain AI Bill that was defeated because Sachs and Trump decided to tell the
congressional Republicans that they didn't want it.
Well, this was a very popular idea to have American companies ahead in line of China.
But no, that's not what NVIDIA wanted.
It's not what Sachs wanted.
It's not what Trump wanted.
These are policies that are alienating
what you might call the true populace in MAGA.
And Steve Bannon speaks for them.
The others don't really speak out because they don't want to get crosswise with Trump.
But you can see the administration beginning to realize it has a problem with its own populist base.
This week, the White House announced that it's considering
requiring AI companies to share the results of their safety testing with the federal government.
Exactly the thing that Trump and Sachs got rid of that Biden had done when they came back into office.
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