- Trump administration reveals new PCAST advisory board
- The great and good of the tech industry are all included, from Huang to Ellison to Zuckerberg
- PCAST to 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 today’s technology landscape and will be co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios.
Its members include 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 Council
The initial 13 members, described as “the country’s foremost luminaries in science and technology,” could soon be increased to 24 in the near future, a decree says.
“The United States has the opportunity to lead the world in AI,” Zuckerberg said. The Wall Street Journal. “I am honored to join the President’s Council and work with other industry leaders to help achieve this goal.”
Exactly what PCAST will do is still vague, but the order says each president has created a similar advisory committee of scientists, engineers and industry executives, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Science Advisory Council in 1933.
Information on its first meeting will be revealed soon, but the order says PCAST will seek to focus on “topics related to the opportunities and challenges that emerging technologies present to the U.S. workforce and ensuring that all Americans thrive in the golden age of innovation.”
Notably, there is no room for Elon Musk, former Trump administration golden boy and founder of DOGE, who aimed to use technologies such as AI to reduce waste and unnecessary spending in the US government, although his claims have proven largely unsuccessful so far.
Musk left DOGE in May 2025 during a major falling out with the Trump administration.
This launch constitutes the latest technological deployment by the White House, which seeks to consolidate its program in this area.
This includes the recently proposed National AI Legislative Framework, a new set of rules aimed at avoiding what Trump previously viewed as a “patchwork” of state laws and strengthening America’s global dominance and competitiveness in the AI sector.
The White House also recently unveiled the administration’s national cybersecurity strategy, outlining its plans to combat cybercrime. Organized around six policy pillars, the document outlines how the administration will respond to foreign and domestic cyber threats, regulate cyberspace, secure government networks and critical infrastructure, promote innovation, and develop talent at home.
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