White House AI czar on race with China: ‘We’ve got to let the private sector cook’

For the U.S. to outmaneuver China in the race to be the global leader in artificial intelligence, Washington needs to trash its traditional regulatory playbook in favor private sector-friendly model that aims to “out-innovate the competition,” the White House’s AI and crypto czar said Tuesday.

David Sacks — a Silicon Valley venture capitalist and technologist and the first person to hold the AI czar role in the White House — said at the AWS Public Sector Summit that he…