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Fortune
Tristan Bove

Trump’s former AI czar says the quiet part out loud on the economy: ‘Stopping progress in AI would be equivalent to halting the US economy’

David Sacks (Credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has framed the current state of the U.S. economy as a “golden age,” and in some ways he’s right. The stock market is at record highs, and economic growth has chugged along adequately. And depending on who you ask, it’s all being supported by one growing industry: AI.

“Polls may show that AI is not popular, but economic growth is,” said venture capitalist David Sacks. “At this point, stopping progress in AI would be equivalent to halting the U.S. economy.”

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