- Trump administration unveils new PCAST advisory board
- Tech industry greats and greats are all included, from Huang to Ellison to Zuckerberg
- PCAST will advise the President on science and technology
The White House has appointed a new board of top technology leaders to advise President Trump on future science and technology policy.
The new President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) includes a veritable who’s-who of the technology landscape today, and will be chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios.
Among its members are Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison, Dell co-founder and CEO Michael Dell and Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
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PCAST advisory board
The initial 13 members, described as “the nation’s leading luminaries in science and technology”, could soon be expanded to 24 in the near future, an executive order noted.
“The United States has the opportunity to lead the world in artificial intelligence,” Zuckerberg said 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 noted that every president has established a similar advisory committee of scientists, engineers and industry leaders, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Science Advisory Board in 1933.
Information about its first meeting will be revealed soon, but the noted order PCAST will look to focus on “topics related to the opportunities and challenges that new technologies present to the American workforce and ensuring that all Americans thrive in the golden age of innovation.”
In particular, there is no room for Elon Musk, former Trump administration golden boy and founder of DOGE, which aimed to use technology like AI to eliminate waste and unnecessary spending across the US government, though its claims have largely failed so far.
Musk left DOGE in May 2025 amid a major falling out with the Trump administration.
The launch is the latest technology rollout from the White House as it looks to cement its agenda in this area.
This includes the recently proposed National AI Legislative Framework, a new set of rules that seeks to avoid what Trump has previously envisioned as a “patchwork” of state laws and increase US 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 foreign and domestic cyber threats, regulate cyberspace, secure government networks and critical infrastructure, foster innovation and build talent at home.
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