Overview
- Sriram Krishnan announced on Saturday, June 6, that he will step down from his position as senior White House policy adviser on artificial intelligence and will leave at the end of June.
- Krishnan helped design the administration’s American AI Action Plan and contributed to the National AI Policy Framework, and he played a central role in securing early government access agreements with Google, Microsoft and xAI for model assessment.
- The White House praised Krishnan as a key asset and David Sacks said Krishnan will continue to advise the administration from outside government, but no official successor has been named.
- Krishnan said he will take a short break and then build outside institutions to tackle practical AI challenges such as data‑center expansion, rising energy use for large AI systems, and ensuring broader public benefit from AI.
- His departure highlights a shift in how the administration sources technical expertise, reflects tensions between a pro‑industry, light‑touch regulatory agenda and critics pushing for stricter controls, and could affect policy on infrastructure siting, energy planning and government access to advanced models.