President Trump appointed David Sacks as co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) this week. The move follows the end of Sacks’ 130-day term as White House AI and crypto czar, Crowdfund Insider reports.
PCAST brings together science and tech leaders to advise Trump and push U.S. strength in those areas. Trump created it through an executive order. Sacks joins alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The council can have up to 24 members, pulling in figures from AI, health care, quantum computing, and more.
Sacks, a venture capitalist, served his limit as a special government employee under U.S. rules. “We’ve now used up that time,” he told Bloomberg, according to Cointelegraph. In his new spot, he’ll keep shaping policy, including AI, by studying issues and sending recommendations to regulators.
Sacks’ AI Track Record
During his czar stint, Sacks drove Trump’s AI shifts. That includes revoking Biden-era limits on AI and blockchain, a December 2025 executive order for national AI rules over state ones, the July 2025 “Winning the AI Race” plan with 90+ initiatives on infrastructure and security, and a March 2025 AI framework for innovation, child protection, and IP rights, as reported by Fox Business.
A senior White House adviser told Fox that Sacks stays the go-to on AI even as his role widens: “David will always be his crypto and AI czar.”
PCAST gives Sacks more reach with big tech firms. He said it lets him recommend on AI plus other tech, and focus on aligning federal and state AI rules into “one rulebook,” according to the Cointelegraph piece and Coingape.
