David Sax
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Sep 18, 2026
Akash PasrichaHOST
And I, I mean, as you say this, uh, and look, w- uh, I think anyone who says that they understand these debates the first time they hear about it, I think is lying to you, and, and I go through this a lot on the show, which is you, we talk about this in different ways and different forms.
Akash PasrichaHOST
I, I'm sort of now really starting to understand David Sax's whole critique of Dario and, and [laughs] of Anthropic.
Akash PasrichaHOST
And, you know, a- and not, and not in the criticism of the intentions, but rather the, the, the criticism of how can you be both at...
Akash PasrichaHOST
How can you pretend to p- be playing both sides at once? Because the part that we ha- we obviously haven't talked about is the IPOs coming up and the commercial interests of shareholders, and the fact that when you are a public company, you have a fiduciary duty to your shareholders to earn them some kind of a profit.
Sam SederHOST
We are broadcasting live steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.
Sam SederHOST
On the program today, David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect and co-host of the Organized Money podcast, to look back on the week and talk about the 10,000 pieces that he wrote this week, all incredibly relevant and, uh, well-researched.
Sam SederHOST
Uh, he is just a, he's a monster.
Sam SederHOST
I don't know what to tell you.
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Sam SederHOST
Um, here is, uh, uh, the Republican Party and Trump is getting pilloried, and he, he, his, um, uh, favorability rating is in the toilet.
Sam SederHOST
Um, you've got...
Sam SederHOST
And we're gonna talk to David Dayen about this.
Sam SederHOST
Uh, Republicans are freaking out.
Tim MillerHOST
Sure.
Stephen WittGUEST
And, and David Sax, when these companies came out and regulated them, basically said, "You know, you guys are trying to discharge your own liability here."
Tim MillerHOST
Yeah, the giveaway for the David Sax thing is, though, he's the AI, AI czar-
Stephen WittGUEST
Yeah
Tim MillerHOST
... for a person that's selling, that's selling the best chips to China.
Rob CarsonHOST
Unbelievable.
Rob CarsonHOST
This is David Sax talking about, uh, uh, the control of AI and Democrats.
Blaine HoltGUEST
There's a lot of, like, overlapping agendas here, where-
Rob CarsonHOST
Yes
Amy KremerGUEST
So he's only as good as the information being put in his ear.
Amy KremerGUEST
And I'm sorry, but when David Sax is the one that's just pushing full speed ahead, and that's who he's talking to, uh, I mean, that's where he's going.
Amy KremerGUEST
And so again, I hope he, um, changes his mind and comes our way.
Amy KremerGUEST
And, and at the end of the day, it's honestly, John, not the president's responsibility to make laws on this.
Kara SwisherHOST
A lot of people are wondering what's called for this slowdown now.
Kara SwisherHOST
Did they see something, or is it just money? David Sax, who is Trump's guru, who's been pushing just sort of Wild West kinda policies, posted, "Stop pretending the motivation is to slow down, uh, is purely altruistic," noting they want to slow down open source.
Kara SwisherHOST
In this case, I agree with David Sax, although I think he's been a menace because he's not allow-allowed any reasonable legislation to go through.
Kara SwisherHOST
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded to AI fears last week, saying, "What better way to create a demand than to create a problem?" We'll get to OpenAI not going public until next year, which we have said many times.
Kara SwisherHOST
But talk a little bit about this, 'cause there's a lot happening here, and suddenly all at once.
Katty KayHOST
They want to exclude others by putting in a regulatory framework that might exclude others.
Katty KayHOST
That's what David Sax is saying, that this is regulatory capture.
Katty KayHOST
Look, it's working for me.
Katty KayHOST
I don't want other people coming into this.
Kathryn RyanHOST
Is that the kind of the ulterior motive argument that's being put?
Danielle KurtzlebenCORRESPONDENT
That's, you're absolutely right, yes, and a guy named David Sax, who is a tech investor and also a tech advisor to the White House, as it happens, w- was saying just that on social media this weekend.
Danielle KurtzlebenCORRESPONDENT
But this AI conversation just took over Washington today.
Danielle KurtzlebenCORRESPONDENT
It's all that anybody's been talking about at the White House.
Faisal IslamCORRESPONDENT
Well, the response you will have seen, uh, from the president, "The only control or guardrails AI needs is a strong and smart president.
Faisal IslamCORRESPONDENT
The USA has that in spades." His AI tsar, David Sax, said, "You could voluntarily do almost this yourself.
Faisal IslamCORRESPONDENT
You're looking for a cartel or duopoly.
Faisal IslamCORRESPONDENT
Stop pretending you need permission.
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