David Sacks on Slow down AI development

David Sacks

Technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and former White House AI adviser.

Dario has written that we need to ‘pace the frontier,’ and Sam has agreed. People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.

Unverified (Sep 14, 2026)

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David Sacks, quoted in Jay Peters, “What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development,” The Verge, September 14, 2026. Sacks responds to Dario Amodei’s and Sam Altman’s call to “pace the frontier”: “People may be surprised by my response: go ahead.” The linked primary X post was inaccessible for retrieval; this source reproduces the quote.

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