""We generally see that in Western countries, the AI optimism is a lot lower," Sacks said Wednesday during a conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. To Sacks' point, the long-running Edelman Trust Barometer featured the striking finding that Americans were more pessimistic about AI than most of the world in 2025."
"In the year since he took office, Trump has taken a distinctly free-market stance on AI development. In an AI Action Plan released last summer, the administration dismantled many regulations concerning AI research, a reversal from Biden-era norms that promoted a whole-of-government approach with federal involvement in AI governance. Trump took it a step further in December, with an executive order that further weakened state-level guardrails for AI development."
Competition for artificial intelligence supremacy involves Silicon Valley, Washington policymakers, and Chinese competitors. The Trump administration has adopted deregulatory policies aimed at accelerating AI development, including dismantling federal regulations and issuing an executive order that weakened state-level guardrails. David Sacks labeled the pessimistic "doomer" mindset a "self-inflicted injury" that could undermine U.S. competitiveness. Sacks warned that state moratoria and a patchwork of AI laws could clamp down on innovation and risk losing the AI race. Public opinion in the United States has shown relatively higher pessimism about AI, according to the Edelman Trust Barometer.
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