White House AI czar David Sacks joined a16z's Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Erik Torenberg for a discussion on the growing risk of politicizing artificial intelligence. Sacks warned that AI could become an Orwellian tool used to advance the political agenda of those in power.

DAVID SACKS: I almost feel like the term woke AI is insufficient to explain what's going on, because it somehow trivializes it. I mean, what we're really talking about is Orwellian AI. You know, we're talking about AI that lies to you, that distorts an answer, that rewrites history in real time to serve a current political agenda of the people who are in power.

I mean, it's very Orwellian. And we were definitely on that path before President Trump's election. It was part of the Biden EO.

We saw it happen in th

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