David Sacks, a venture capitalist who has made much of his fortune investing in tech companies and currently serves as the Trump administration’s “Crypto and AI Czar,” is worried about regulatory capture. No, not his regulatory capture, that’s fine. He’s worried about Anthropic, one of the largest AI startups in the world, which he believes is cynically positioning itself as the pro-regulation company in order to push policies that it would benefit from while stifling others who want to get started in the AI sector.
In a post on his personal X account, Sacks, who is still technically a part of the Trump administration as a special government employee, warned, “Anthropic is running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.” According to Sacks, the startup i