His Sauron warning targets control over AI releases, a power already proposed in a September bill and El-Sayed’s campaign platform.

“Do not let Sauron have the ring,” Erik Voorhees, founder of AI service Venice, wrote on Nov. 12, warning against giving politicians control over artificial intelligence. His post as @ErikVoorhees targeted the concentration of political power over machine intelligence.

His warning followed a clip of All-In co-host David Sacks predicting a Democratic push for a federal department to approve frontier AI models before release. A September Sanders-Casar bill already proposes such a department and approval powers for covered advanced AI systems. El-Sayed's October Senate campaign platform proposes an agency that could block releases, with a different set of safeguards.

The clip published by @firesidealpha on Nov. 7 shows Sacks predicting a major Democratic push for AI legislation in the next Congress. He describes a federal AI department reviewing the most advanced models, giving developers its concerns and withholding release until those concerns are addressed.

Sacks goes further, alleging that Democrats want AI-powered surveillance and censorship. The proposals establish release-blocking powers, not the political motives he alleges.

The remarks came from the Nov. 7 All-In episode, announced by @theallinpod. In the full episode, Sacks also predicts a bargain in which government gains more power while closed-model companies gain regulatory protection. His concern therefore reaches beyond censorship to the possibility that compliance rules could protect established developers from competition.

Voorhees argues that open-source transparency and decentralization provide better safety, and that licensing undermines equality.

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