{"id":661017,"date":"2026-09-23T05:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/us-treasury-secretary-emerges-as-frontrunner-for-trumps-ai-czar-role-report\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T05:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:53:53","slug":"us-treasury-secretary-emerges-as-frontrunner-for-trumps-ai-czar-role-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/23\/us-treasury-secretary-emerges-as-frontrunner-for-trumps-ai-czar-role-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury secretary emerges as frontrunner for Trump\u2019s AI czar role: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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US President Donald Trump previously tapped David Sacks as his AI and crypto czar before Sacks stepped down from the role earlier this year after reaching his service limit as a special government employee. <\/p>\n

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reportedly being considered as US President Donald Trump\u2019s next artificial intelligence czar, days after Trump announced plans for an \u201cAI Force\u201d amid mounting concerns about the technology\u2019s risks. <\/p>\n

Bessent is a frontrunner for the position, three sources familiar with the matter told<\/a> Semafor. Other candidates include the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios and Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor, a former managing partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and National Cyber Director Sean Cairncross.<\/p>\n

However, White House spokesperson Kush Desai told Semafor that \u201cany reporting about personnel decisions that have not been officially announced by the administration should be regarded as baseless speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump previously tapped David Sacks as his AI and crypto czar before Sacks stepped down from the role earlier this year after reaching his service limit as a special government employee. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is reportedly being considered as US President Donald Trump\u2019s next artificial intelligence czar, days after Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":661020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-661017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}