reported<\/a> in June.<\/p>\nKrishnan took on a more formal role at the National Economic Council when Sacks vacated the czarship until his own departure in June, according to Axios.<\/p>\n
Scott Bessent<\/p>\n
The US Treasury Secretary has been widely reported as the frontrunner and has repeatedly stated that AI companies should bear responsibility for what their models do.<\/p>\n
He has become increasingly involved in AI policy, including discussions with Chinese officials this week over a potential US-China mechanism for communicating about AI incidents that threaten national security.<\/p>\n
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent denied that President Trump has already offered him the job during a Fox News interview. Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best way to guarantee safety is that the creators are liable for what they build and generate,\u201d Bessent said in testimony before the House Financial Services Committee.<\/p>\n
Bessent told Fox News that Reuters\u2019 report claiming he was already asked by Trump to serve in the role was \u201cfake news.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sean Cairncross<\/p>\n
The National Cyber Director has been a major part of the Trump administration\u2019s AI policymaking since 2025.<\/p>\n
Sean Cairncross, White House National Cyber Director and former CEO of the Republican National Committee. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n
He was appointed by Trump as the CEO of the US foreign aid organization Millennium Challenge Corp. from 2019 to 2021 and was elected chief operating officer of the Republican National Committee in 2016.<\/p>\n
Cairncross has clashed with Bessent, believing that the Treasury Department has become too involved with AI matters, according to a June 6 report from Axios.<\/p>\n
Administration insiders expressed doubt that former Republican party operative was up to the task of regulating frontier AI labs \u2014 with one anonymous official previously telling Politico that Cairncross was \u201cin over his head.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael Kratsios<\/p>\n
The director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has been one of Trump\u2019s leading technology advisers and has argued against slowing the development of frontier AI.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe frontier of intelligence is advancing rapidly. That is not a reason to pause its further development or to constrain it with new global governance structures,\u201d Kratsios said in an address at the United Nations on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Michael Kratsios, Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly through an open, cooperative ecosystem built on sovereign infrastructure and domestic capacity can the world realize this technology\u2019s potential. US international efforts seek to build that capacity by sharing our technology and providing the tools for adoption.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cYou cannot govern a technology you do not understand. This body and others like it should focus on sharing best practices to build domestic capacity, not establishing a global regulatory regime.\u201d <\/p>\n
Whoever gets the job will face pressure from both the AI industry and lawmakers as Washington struggles to determine how to regulate technology that is advancing faster than the government can write rules for it.<\/p>\n
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, is a vocal proponent of strict AI regulation and is pushing, along with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), for the \u201cArtificial Intelligence Risk Evaluation Act.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Show Me State senator said he wants any new AI czar to put American citizens first.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomebody who\u2019s got everyday citizens\u2019 best interests at heart,\u201d Hawley told The Post. <\/p>\n
\u201cBut Congress should do something too. We should pass a bill limiting data centers. We ought to pass legislation that would stop AI chatbots from pushing sexual material to kids. We ought to pass legislation that would give everyday people the right to get into court against these companies. We should not just sit back and spectate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s next AI czar will be walking into a technological revolution moving at breakneck speed \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":862142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,181,1340,34477,12,23518,5477,3,7934,4666,21,19,22,20,25,194,24,3123],"class_list":["post-862141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-congress","tag-cyber","tag-donald-trump","tag-josh-hawley","tag-national-security","tag-news","tag-richard-blumenthal","tag-scott-bessent","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=862141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}