Trump’s AI Czar David Sacks Rebuffs Criticism of China Stance

White House AI czar David Sacks defended the Trump administration’s approach to China and said it was essential for the US to dominate artificial intelligence, seeking to rebuff criticism from advocates of a harder line with Beijing.

“I consider myself to be a China hawk,” Sacks said in a Bloomberg Television interview Monday. “I want the US to win this AI race. We understand that China is our main competition globally in this AI race, and we want to do everything we can to win.”

Sacks took aim at concerns raised by supporters of a tougher China policy in Washington ...