Ep. 7: David Sacks: Target AI Risks. Don't Target the Models.

This week, David Sacks made a simple argument with a very useful contradiction buried inside it. He said: target the risks around AI, but do not target the models themselves. That sounds like a policy distinction. In Sacks's hands, it also becomes a market pitch. Chinese open models are moving fast, American guardrails are slowing American companies down, and the answer is more permissionless deployment, plus more security spending after the fact. Priya, let us start with the claim before we start assigning motives.