Noel King

We've all witnessed the power of the AI industry through this post-chat GPT boom.

So it ends up having a lot of geopolitical significance in terms of how we think about national security in China.

All of that is tied in with GPUs and chips that are needed by companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, chips that are built by NVIDIA, depending on the day, the top of the stock market, trillion dollar company.

So his profile is just so much higher than it used to be.

In the first half of the show, we talked about how states want to regulate A.I.

And the way that governors are putting it is we want laws on the books protecting people from artificial intelligence.

The Trump administration says, no, you can't do that.

Where do you think David Sachs fits into the executive order that says states you don't get to make laws around A.I.

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He played a very instrumental role in this EO.

We only have a system that's good if it's smart.

David Sachs, can you say a few words, please?

It involved David Sachs doing a lot of

work behind the scenes, talking to the populist wing of the Republican Party, trying to get them on board, emphasizing that this would not affect those laws that would keep their constituents safe.

They tried to make it clear, like, look, we're not trying to

stop you from protecting teens in your district or what have you.

We just want laws that are not onerous, that won't slow down the development of the AI industry.

And that very much matches what you're hearing from the VC crowd that worked in the Trump administration that, you know, was aligned with the tech right.

When they came into office, it was like, we want rules of the road for crypto and we want no hindrance for AI.

You know, this EO definitely reflects their interest in making sure that there's not a, quote unquote, patchwork of laws that a startup has to abide by.