The recent President Donald Trump has confirmed this Reports that Sriram Krishnan, most recently a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), will function senior policy advisor for AI within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Trump said in a single opinion that Krishnan “will help shape and coordinate AI policy across the federal government, working with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.” And in a single post On
“It is an honor to serve our country and be certain that the United States continues to steer in AI,” Krishnan wrote. “Thank you, Donald Trump, for this chance.”
Krishnan, an entrepreneur and VC, previously led product teams at Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo! (Disclosure: TechCrunch's parent company), Facebook and Snap. He and his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy gained additional notoriety in 2021 as hosts of the podcast “The Aarthi and Sriram Show” (which was then called “Good Time Show”).
Krishnan has an in depth relationship with billionaire Elon Musk, with whom he worked to rebuild Twitter (now X) after Musk acquired the corporate in 2022. Musk is co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency, a policy group that recommends government restructuring and cuts to federal spending.
Some essential announcements from President Trump today 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 Assistant to the President for Science and Technology.
—Dr. Lynne… https://t.co/zai4a61VVC– David Sacks (@DavidSacks) December 22, 2024
Krishnan was named general partner at a16z in February 2021 and was appointed to steer the firm's London office, its first location outside the US, in 2023. He left at the tip of November.
Krishnan expressed a few of his views on current AI trends in a single Opinion piece last yr within the New York Times. He called for “a fundamentally different mechanism” for web sites to “exchange value” with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI-powered chatbots.
“Major web sites are fighting back against Internet-equivalent AI models by pulling up the castle’s drawbridge,” he said, referring to user protests To Reddit and Stack Exchange and people platforms' data licensing programs. “Some industry experts imagine the answers lie in legal motion and the formation of content alliances by legacy sites. As a technologist, I hope the answers lie in code quite than lawyers, and that we see creative technology solutions that help keep the web open.”
