White House AI and cryptocurrency czar David Sacks will change titles and join the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology as co-chair, he announced Thursday.
Sacks, who was named US President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency and AI czar before Trump resumed office last January, has overseen the White House’s early work on crypto initiatives, including passage of the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act and, more recently, work around the crypto market structure bill.
“PCAST is the lead external advisory body charged with shaping science, technology and innovation policy for the President and the White House,” he said in a post on X (formerly Twitter). “Thirteen of the world’s most prominent leaders in science and technology will join us as initial members of this PCAST.”
Sacks told Bloomberg earlier Thursday that his czar role was designated as a “special government employee,” meaning he could legally only serve in that position for 130 business days. Democrats in Congress had already expressed concern that he had outgrown this period last fall.
He doesn’t have the same problem if he acts as co-chair of the advisory committee.
Sacks said in the Bloomberg interview that the council would make policy recommendations and conduct studies on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nuclear energy and other “cutting-edge technologies.”
“I think we can expect us to make some recommendations in those areas. We want to boost the president’s AI framework that was already released last week,” Sacks said in the interview. “I think we’ll see a lot of activity around that. But there will be other areas as well.”
Sacks did not mention cryptocurrencies in the interview.
Other committee members include Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Dell founder Michael Dell, Coinbase early backer Fred Ehrsam, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, and Meta (formerly Facebook) founder Mark Zuckerberg, among others. Michael Kratsios, who served in both Trump administrations, will be co-chair.
