Incoming president Donald Trump has confirmed reports that Sriram Krishnan, till lately a normal accomplice at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will function senior coverage advisor for AI on the White Home Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage.
Trump mentioned in a statement that Krishnan will “assist form and coordinate AI coverage throughout authorities, working with the president’s council of advisors on science and expertise.” And in a post on X, Krishnan mentioned that he’ll be working carefully with ex-PayPal COO David Sacks, who was 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. “Thanks, Donald Trump, for this chance.”
Krishnan, an entrepreneur and VC, beforehand led product groups at Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo! (disclosure: TechCrunch’s guardian firm), Fb, and Snap. He and his spouse, Aarthi Ramamurthy, rose to extra prominence in 2021 as hosts of the podcast “The Aarthi and Sriram Present” (which was then known as the “Good Time Present”).
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 necessary bulletins in the present day by President Trump on his Tech Workforce! I look ahead to working with:
— Michael Kratsios – Director of the White Home Workplace of Science and Know-how Coverage (OSTP), and an Assistant to the President for Science and Know-how.
— Dr. Lynne… https://t.co/zai4a61VVC— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) December 22, 2024
Krishnan was appointed a normal accomplice at a16z in February 2021, and in 2023, was chosen to guide the agency’s London workplace, its first non-U.S. location. He left in late November.
Krishnan expressed a number of of his views on present AI tendencies in an opinion piece final yr in The New York Occasions. He known as for “a essentially completely different mechanism” for web sites to “change” worth with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and different AI-powered chatbots.
“Giant web websites are combating again in opposition to AI fashions with the web equal of elevating the fortress drawbridge,” he mentioned, referring to user protests on Reddit and Stack Change and people platforms’ data licensing packages. “Some business 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 moderately than attorneys and that we see inventive expertise options to assist hold the web open.”
