President Trump Names Meta, Nvidia CEOs to White House Tech and Science Council

President Donald Trump has named tech leaders including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to his President's Council of Advisors connected Science and Technology (PCAST), joining a radical of different salient AI and tech manufacture founders and executives.

The council, established by enforcement bid and announced by the White House connected Wednesday, volition beryllium co-chaired by entrepreneur David Sacks—previously the White House AI and crypto czar—and erstwhile U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios.

The 13 archetypal appointees besides see Oracle laminitis Larry Ellison, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, on with Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam and salient crypto task capitalist Marc Andreessen.

Other members see fusion vigor executives Jacob DeWitte and Bob Mumgaard, erstwhile Google quantum computing researcher John Martinis, entrepreneur David Friedberg, and Oracle CEO Safra Catz.

The assembly tin comprise up to 24 members, with further appointments expected "in the adjacent aboriginal on with accusation astir the Council's archetypal meeting," according to the White House statement.

According to the White House, PCAST volition absorption connected topics related to "the opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies contiguous to the American workforce, and ensuring each Americans thrive successful the Golden Age of Innovation." The assignment follows a humanities precedent dating to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Science Advisory Board successful 1933.

Just past week, the White House released a national argumentation model for AI, which outlined recommendations to Congress regarding nationalist standards for AI that could beryllium regulated by existing national agencies alternatively of creating a caller regulator for the purpose.