President Trump has tapped a who’s who of the tech world — including Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang — to serve on a revived President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), signaling a high-profile push to shape federal policy at the intersection of AI, crypto and other emerging technologies.
Announced Wednesday by the White House and created by executive order, the initial 13-member roster blends semiconductor and cloud leaders, AI founders, and several figures from the crypto ecosystem. The council will be co-chaired by entrepreneur David Sacks — who previously served as the White House’s AI and crypto czar — and former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios.
Initial appointees named by the White House:
- Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)
- Jensen Huang (Nvidia)
- Larry Ellison (Oracle founder)
- Sergey Brin (Google co-founder)
- Lisa Su (AMD CEO)
- Michael Dell (Dell Technologies CEO)
- Fred Ehrsam (Coinbase co-founder)
- Marc Andreessen (prominent crypto venture capitalist)
- Jacob DeWitte (fusion energy exec)
- Bob Mumgaard (fusion energy exec)
- John Martinis (former Google quantum computing researcher)
- David Friedberg (entrepreneur)
- Safra Catz (Oracle CEO)
The council can expand to as many as 24 members; the White House said more appointments and details on the council’s first meeting will be announced “in the near future.”
According to the administration, PCAST’s remit will include assessing “the opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies present to the American workforce, and ensuring all Americans thrive in the Golden Age of Innovation.” For crypto stakeholders, the presence of Ehrsam and Andreessen signals that blockchain and digital-asset perspectives will sit alongside AI, semiconductor and quantum expertise as federal advisors.
This move follows a longstanding precedent for presidential science advisory bodies dating back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Science Advisory Board in 1933. It also comes on the heels of last week’s White House national policy framework for AI, which recommended Congress consider national standards that could be enforced through existing federal agencies rather than creating an entirely new AI regulator.
For crypto and Web3 observers, the new PCAST lineup is a development to watch: it brings crypto voices into closer strategic conversation with AI, hardware and energy executives — sectors that will help shape the policy and regulatory landscape for both digital assets and emerging technologies more broadly.
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