President Donald Trump has appointed a slate of prominent technology executives to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, including Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, Andreessen Horowitz Co-Founder Marc Andreessen, Oracle Executive Vice Chair Safra Katz, Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin, and Dell Technologies Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell. The 13-member panel will be co-chaired by White House AI adviser David Sacks and Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios, and is expected to play a role in shaping the administration’s science and technology agenda, including artificial intelligence policy.
The appointments place several of Silicon Valley’s most influential leaders in a formal advisory role as the White House advances a more aggressive approach to AI. The announcement came days after the administration released an AI framework urging Congress to curb state-level AI regulation, a proposal that has already drawn opposition from Democrats and some Republicans. The composition of the new council also marks a shift from prior versions of the group, which generally included a larger share of scientists and technical experts and fewer executives with direct political ties to the president.
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