Trump Rewards Big Tech's Biggest Bootlickers With Seats on AI Policy Board
Source: Gizmodo
The White House announced the new members of a board called the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on Wednesday. First established under President George W. Bush with the stated goal of “strengthening American leadership in science and technology,” the board’s latest iteration is comprised of people who’ve debased themselves in order to get closer to President Donald Trump. But there’s one big-name tech oligarch that you might notice is currently missing.
The board is co-chaired by David Sacks, Trump’s AI and crypto czar, as well as Michael Kratsios, the chief technology officer of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The full list of names announced on Wednesday:
Marc Andreessen (Andreesen Horowitz)
Sergey Brin (Google)
Safra Catz (Oracle)
Michael Dell (Dell)
Jacob DeWitte (Oklo)
Fred Ehrsam (Coinbase)
Larry Ellison (Oracle)
David Friedberg (All-In podcast)
Jensen Huang (Nvidia)
John Martinis (Nobel Prize in Physics)
Bob Mumgaard (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)
Lisa Su (AMD)
Mark Zuckerberg (Meta)
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If we had to guess, the board under Trump will help steer money to benefit favored tech businesses that are willing to play ball with the Trump regime’s authoritarian playbook. Under Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama, there were a handful of members of the board who were leaders in the tech industry, but the vast majority were scientists and academics.
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Read more: https://gizmodo.com/trump-rewards-big-techs-biggest-bootlickers-with-seats-on-ai-policy-board-2000738006
The article points out that Elon Musk is missing, despite everything he's done for Trump. Gizmodo suggests this might be because he's too busy (LOL) or because Musk made so much noise months ago about Trump being in the Epstein files.
Darius Amodei of Anthropic is also missing from the list - no surprise after he refused to do everything Hegseth demanded.
OpenAI's Sam Altman is missing as well, probably because he expressed some support for Amodei taking a stand.
I'm amused by the PCAST acronym. But it's descriptive, because Trump is pissing all over not just the US but the entire world, and the tech industry is definitely enabling the way that toxic pee is cast.
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