Sacks: Government poses the primary threat of Orwellian AI power centralization
David Sacks · Anthropic's Digital God, Pope vs AI, Job Loss Narrative Flips, Open Source Crackdown Coming? · May 29, 2026 · at 20:07
David Sacks discusses Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical and warns that government centralization of AI poses a greater danger than corporate monopolies.
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“Well, I very much agree with the Pope that the biggest risk of AI is a centralization of power, and then it's misuse against us in some Orwellian way. I think it's government that's gonna do that.”
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