He also announced the appointment of the Chennai-born Sriram Krishnan, Elon Musk’s aide and former Microsoft employee, who is now an entrepreneur, as the Senior Policy Advisor for Artificial Intelligence at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
In addition, he also announced Michael Kratsios and Lynne Parker to key roles to work with the other tech appointees working on artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency, as reported by Politico.
On December 5th, Trump had announced that he was appointing former PayPal Chief Operating Officer Sacks to be his White House Artificial Intelligence and Crypto Czar.
This is the list of people who are appointed now, according to Politico:
Kratsios will serve as an advisor to David Sacks in his role as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Previously, Kratsios held the position of chief technology officer (CTO) under Trump, where he led tech policy efforts during the transition, alongside Gail Slater, who will now head antitrust at the Justice Department.
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Parker will advise Kratsios in his role as executive director of the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a council chaired by Sacks. Parker previously served as deputy CTO under Trump and was the founding director of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office.Sriram Krishnan has been appointed senior policy advisor for AI at OSTP. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and has previously worked at Microsoft, X, Meta, and Snap.
Scott Kupor, who also worked at Andreessen Horowitz as the managing partner, is named as the director of the Office of Personnel Management.
Following his victory in the US presidential elections last month, Donald Trump has been forming his cabinet for his upcoming tenure as the 47th President of the United States.
It was a pleasant surprise for bitcoin supporters to see Trump support crypto, the very thing he once labelled a scam. He promised to make the United States the “crypto capital of the planet.”
