{"id":78932,"date":"2026-09-20T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/an-out-of-touch-silicon-valley-radical-meet-trumps-ai-whisperer-pushing-for-limited-regulation\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:56:14","slug":"an-out-of-touch-silicon-valley-radical-meet-trumps-ai-whisperer-pushing-for-limited-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/an-out-of-touch-silicon-valley-radical-meet-trumps-ai-whisperer-pushing-for-limited-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical\u2019: meet Trump\u2019s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI \u2013 putting the White House out of step with its own party<\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">artificial intelligence<\/a> models, one of the few vocal naysayers has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>. He\u2019s called the perceived dangers of the technology a \u201choax\u201d and a \u201cscam\u201d, arguing that the government already has \u201ctremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a starkly different stance from those of his former adviser <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/steve-bannon\">Steve Bannon<\/a>, the Republican Texas senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ted-cruz\">Ted Cruz<\/a> and even the heads of the world\u2019s leading AI companies. But it\u2019s directly in line with the opinion of David Sacks \u2013 a prominent billionaire venture capitalist and Trump\u2019s onetime AI and crypto czar, who has pushed back publicly and forcefully against recent claims of an impending AI apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/20\/david-sacks-trump-ai-czar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI \u2013 putting the White House out of step with its own party As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle in the US have joined together calling for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models, one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump. He\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical\u2019: meet Trump\u2019s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/an-out-of-touch-silicon-valley-radical-meet-trumps-ai-whisperer-pushing-for-limited-regulation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018An out-of-touch Silicon Valley radical\u2019: meet Trump\u2019s AI whisperer pushing for limited regulation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}