Trump AI Czar Unsure on Targeting California: California Brief

White House AI czar David Sacks defended President Donald Trump’s push to rein in state-level regulation of AI, saying the move seeks to ease compliance burdens for companies.

Sacks said in an interview Friday on Bloomberg TV that the administration is moving toward developing with Congress a common standard for AI oversight. Right now, AI model development can take place across multiple states, each with its own regulatory standards.

“You have 50 different states running in 50 different directions. That type of compliance regime will be hard for small companies and startups, especially innovators,” Sacks said. “What we need is ...