Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed experiences that Sriram Krishnan, till just lately a normal companion at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will function senior coverage advisor for AI on the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Trump stated in an announcement that Krishnan will “assist form and coordinate AI coverage throughout authorities, working with the president’s council of advisors on science and know-how.” And in a put up on X, Krishnan stated that he’ll be working carefully with ex-PayPal COO David Sacks, who was just lately named Trump’s crypto and AI ‘czar.’
“I’m honored to have the ability to serve our nation and guarantee continued American management in AI,” Krishnan wrote. “Thank you, Donald Trump, for this chance.”
Krishnan, an entrepreneur and VC, beforehand led product groups at Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo! (disclosure: TechCrunch’s guardian firm), Facebook, and Snap. He and his spouse, Aarthi Ramamurthy, rose to further prominence in 2021 as hosts of the podcast “The Aarthi and Sriram Show” (which was then referred to as the “Good Time Show”).
Krishnan has an in depth relationship with billionaire Elon Musk, with whom he labored to rebuild Twitter (now X) following Musk’s acquisition of the corporate in 2022. Musk co-leads the Department of Government Efficiency, a coverage group to suggest authorities restructuring and cuts to federal spending.
Some vital bulletins at this time by President Trump on his Tech Team! I look ahead to working with:
— Michael Kratsios – Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), and an Assistant to the President for Science and Technology.
— Dr. Lynne…— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) December 22, 2024
Krishnan was appointed a normal companion at a16z in February 2021, and in 2023, was chosen to steer the agency’s London workplace, its first non-U.S. location. He left in late November.
Krishnan expressed a couple of of his views on present AI developments in an opinion piece final yr in The New York Times. He referred to as for “a essentially completely different mechanism” for web sites to “alternate” worth with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and different AI-powered chatbots.
“Large web websites are combating again in opposition to AI fashions with the web equal of elevating the fort drawbridge,” he stated, referring to person protests on Reddit and Stack Exchange and people platforms’ information licensing applications. “Some trade consultants consider the solutions are in authorized motion and older websites forming content material alliances. As a technologist, my hope is that the solutions lie in code reasonably than attorneys and that we see inventive know-how options to assist maintain the web open.”
