America could ‘lose the AI race’ because of too much ‘pessimism,’ White House AI czar David Sacks says

The race for artificial intelligence supremacy has pitted Silicon Valley bigwigs against Washington policymakers and Chinese competitors. President Donald Trump has taken a deregulatory approach to AI development, at times flying in the face of criticisms advocating improved safety infrastructure, an argument that the administration’s leading technology advisor has equated to a willful abandonment of the race for AI dominance.

The so-called AI “doomer” mindset—a viewpoint that unconstrained...