- Trump Administration Unveils New PCAST Advisory Board
- Included are the great and good of the tech industry, from Huang to Ellison to Zuckerberg.
- PCAST will advise the President on science and technology
The White House has named a new board of top technology leaders to advise President Trump on future science and technology policy.
The new Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) includes a veritable who’s who of today’s technology landscape and will be co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios.
Its members include Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Dell co-founder and CEO Michael Dell, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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The initial 13 members, described as “the nation’s foremost luminaries in science and technology,” could soon expand to 24 in the near future, an executive order notes.
“The United States has the opportunity to lead the world in AI,” said Zuckerberg The Wall Street Journal. “I am honored to join the President’s Council and work with other industry leaders to help make this happen.”
Exactly what PCAST will do remains vague, but the order notes that each president has established a similar advisory committee of scientists, engineers and industry leaders, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Scientific Advisory Council in 1933.
Information about its first meeting will be revealed soon, but the order noted that PCAST will seek to focus on “issues related to the opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies present to the American workforce and ensure that all Americans thrive in the Golden Age of Innovation.”
In particular, there is no place for Elon Musk, former golden boy of the Trump administration and founder of DOGE, whose goal was to use technology such as artificial intelligence to reduce waste and unnecessary spending throughout the US government, although his claims have largely proven unsuccessful so far.
Musk left DOGE in May 2025 during a major dispute with the Trump administration.
The launch is the latest technological deployment by the White House, which seeks to consolidate its agenda in this area.
This includes the recently proposed National AI Legislative Framework, a new set of rules that seek to avoid what Trump previously slated as a “patchwork” of state laws and boost America’s global dominance and competitiveness in the AI sector.
The White House also recently unveiled the administration’s National Cyber Strategy, which outlines its plans to combat cybercrime. Under six policy pillars, the document explains how the administration will respond to domestic and foreign cyber threats, regulate cyberspace, protect government networks and critical infrastructure, promote innovation, and generate domestic talent.
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