Meet the White House's 'Avengers' team tasked with keeping the US safe from AI

President Trump has announced a list of appointees to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). The newly formed council will have one goal: advising the President and providing recommendations on strengthening American leadership in both scientific and technological fields.

The council will be co-chaired by David Sacks and Michael Kratsios. Sacks, a general partner in Craft Ventures, a venture capital fund, and Kratsios, the current Science Advisor to the President of the United States, will be at the helm of the council, which includes some extremely notable names in the technology space, particularly, NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, AMD's CEO Lisa Su, and Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Additionally, Marc Andreessen, former software engineer and venture capitalist at Andreessen Horowitz, is a named member, alongside Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, David Friedberg, founder of Climate Corporation, and others. Notably, since the PCAST council was formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, each President has chosen their own PCAST advisory board, which typically consists of scientists, engineers, and industry leaders at the current time.

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The council's primary role is to advise the POTUS on major issues such as AI, climate change, health tech, semiconductors, and national security. With this advice, POTUS can shape US policy to address big challenges in the future while also maintaining a safe level of development. It appears the council's main topic will be AI, given that many of its members are leaders in the field.