The White House named AI and crypto czar David Sacks co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, expanding his role in the Trump administration. President Donald Trump created the council through a Wednesday executive order. The group will advise the president and support US leadership in science and technology.
The appointment gives Sacks a wider mandate across AI and other technology issues. It also broadens the White House’s engagement with major tech companies through a council that can include up to 24 members.
Sacks told FOX Business that the president wanted to keep “the pedal to the metal on everything tech.” The council’s roster includes Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. How much of the White House’s tech agenda will now run through one adviser?
Trump moved quickly on AI after taking office. In his first week, he revoked a Biden-era policy that had taken a more cautious line on AI and blockchain.
Later, Trump signed a December 2025 order that created a national framework for AI regulation and preempted state-level rules. The order said US companies should innovate without cumbersome regulation.
Then, in July 2025, the White House released its “Winning the AI Race” action plan. It listed more than 90 federal initiatives tied to innovation, infrastructure, security, and US competitiveness. More recently, the administration rolled out a national AI policy framework focused on consistent standards, censorship, free speech, and child protection.
Sacks has also helped shape the administration’s digital asset agenda. Within days of Trump taking office, the White House promoted US leadership in digital assets, banned a central bank digital currency, and created a presidential working group.
In March 2025, Trump created a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a US Digital Asset Stockpile. That move placed digital assets inside a formal government strategy. Then Congress passed the GENIUS Act in July 2025, creating federal rules for payment stablecoins with bipartisan support in both chambers.
At the same time, the administration eased pressure on the crypto industry. It ended several SEC investigations and installed crypto-friendly leaders at key agencies. Sacks later called the defunding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau his “personal favorite,” saying it removed the industry’s most aggressive enforcement arm.
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Sacks told Bloomberg that PCAST would push forward the president’s National AI Legislative Framework. Brookings, a non-partisan US think tank, said the framework signaled a shift away from safe and accountable AI toward faster private-sector deployment.
Sacks said the United States needed one national AI rulebook. He argued that 50 state systems had created a patchwork that made compliance harder for innovators. He also said Congress now had a good chance to act on the framework.
That message has appeared before in Sacks’ public case for federal control. He was thought to have largely written a November 2025 order that blocked states from regulating AI. Silicon Valley peers, including OpenAI executives, had pushed for that approach, while Democrats described it as a move to curry favor with Big Tech CEOs.
David Sacks’ appointment as PCAST co-chair expands his influence over both AI policy and crypto regulation in the Trump administration. The move links the White House’s technology agenda more closely with major industry leaders while reinforcing its push for unified federal rules across emerging sectors.