White House AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks is switching titles and joining the President’s Council on Science and Technology as co-chair, he announced Thursday.
Sacks, who was named US President Donald Trump’s crypto and AI czar before Trump took office last January, has overseen the White House’s early work on crypto initiatives, including the passage of the stablecoin-focused GENIUS Act and, more recently, work on the crypto market structure bill.
“PCAST is the primary body of outside advisers tasked 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 accomplished leaders in science and technology will join us as this PCAST’s inaugural members.”
Sacks told Bloomberg earlier Thursday that his czar role was designated as a “special government employee,” meaning he could legally serve in that position for only 130 work days. Democrats in Congress had already expressed concern that he had exceeded that term last fall.
He does not have the same problem as co-chairman of the advisory committee.
Sacks said in the Bloomberg interview that the council would make policy recommendations and conduct research around artificial intelligence, quantum computing, nuclear power and other “advanced technologies.”
“I think you can expect us to make some recommendations in those areas. We want to push forward the president’s AI framework, which was already released last week,” Sacks said in the interview. “So you’re going to see, I think, a lot of activity around that. But it’s going to be other areas as well.”
Sacks did not mention crypto in the interview.
Other members of the committee include Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Dell founder Michael Dell, early Coinbase backer Fred Ehrsam, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su and Meta (formerly Facebook) founder Mark Zuckerberg, among others. Michael Kratsios, who has served in both Trump administrations, will serve as co-chair.
