Sacks said regulation should not be used to spread fear and uncertainty that could push enterprises away from China’s open-source AI models and weaken market competition.
David Sacks, co-chair of the U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, publicly rebuked OpenAI’s Dean W. Ball over regulatory arguments tied to Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model and China’s open-source AI offerings. Sacks said it would be unacceptable to use regulation to generate fear, uncertainty, and doubt that pressures enterprises to abandon those models, warning that guidance lacking a sufficient factual basis could undermine the rule of law and create a dangerous precedent for future abuse. He said AI policy is at a critical stage, with leading closed-source model makers trying to use government power to weaken open-source competition, and urged Silicon Valley to back open competition in the sector.