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White House AI and crypto czar
If you have to report to 50 different state regulators at 50 different times with 50 different definitions, it's extremely onerous. And it's going to slow down innovation, and it's going to hinder our progress in the AI race.
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States should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government
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AI Verified The quote criticizes having 50 different state AI reporting rules and definitions as burdensome and harmful to innovation, which clearly implies opposition to states keeping separate, potentially stricter AI standards beyond a federal standard. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote criticizes having '50 different state regulators' and '50 different definitions' as 'extremely onerous,' but it does not explicitly say whether states should retain the right to set stricter AI safety standards than the federal government. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified Fox Business confirms David Sacks appeared on "Mornings with Maria" on December 12, 2025 to discuss Trump’s AI-standard executive order, and Crypto Briefing quotes him verbatim with the exact wording you supplied. However, the Yahoo/Bloomberg story tied to your URL appears to use a different nearby quote ("You have fifty different states running in fifty different directions...") rather than this exact sentence. So the quote appears authentic and correctly attributed to Sacks, but not sourced from that Yahoo/Bloomberg article itself. ([foxbusiness.com](https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6386402527112)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified. Source URL (Yahoo Finance) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim across multiple outlets: "If you have to report to 50 different state regulators at 50 different times with 50 different definitions, it's extremely onerous. And it's going to slow down innovation, and it's going to hinder our progress in the AI race." Correctly attributed to David Sacks (White House AI/crypto czar), stated on Fox Business' "Mornings with Maria" while defending Trump's EO "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence." Year 2025 is recent (last year). The vote "against" on statement #435 ("Mandate 72-hour reporting of critical AI safety incidents to a national authority") aligns with Sacks's position: he explicitly frames mandatory reporting requirements as "extremely onerous," innovation-slowing, and harmful to the AI race. Nuance noted — his specific complaint targets a 50-state patchwork rather than a single national authority, but his broader deregulatory stance and the quote's framing of reporting mandates as onerous burdens supports an "against" vote on imposing such a mandate. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 28d ago
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