Sacks — who spoke at the AWS Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday — highlighted President Donald Trump’s “pro-growth” stance and his administration’s prioritization of advancing U.S. technology globally. He singled out China as the primary adversary of the U.S., and noted that some export controls will be necessary for national security. Sacks stressed, however, that policy needs to simultaneously support the global proliferation of American AI technologies.
“We don't want our advanced semiconductors going to our global adversaries, but we also have to care about market share,” he said. “We want the American technology stack to be broadly adopted.”
Threading this needle will take multiple policy approaches, including solidifying partnerships with ally nations to adopt U.S. AI systems, avoiding the implementation of harsh regulatory policies that could stifle innovation and building the infrastructure necessary to offer more domestic computing power.
“Let's generate more power,” Sacks said. “Let's get the red tape out of the way. Let's cut 10 times more regulations than new ones we put in place.”
Among the types of regulations Sacks said should not make the cut, he singled out the controversial Biden-era diffusion rule that imposed more rigid export controls on U.S. technology and was rescinded in May.
“Diffusion … is how technology companies win,” he said. “I think that we have to have a mentality of: ‘biggest ecosystem wins.’”
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