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"Trump remembers to appoint science panel, fills it mostly with tech bros."
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/25/trump_science_tech_panel/Among the new members of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (#PCAST) are #MarcAndreessen, #SergeyBrin, #MichaelDell, #LarryEllison, and #MarkZuckerberg.
If you're curious, Wikipedia lists the PCAST members under Biden and Obama.
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#Trump staffs #science & #technology panel with non-scientists
The list of appointees was finally released…There are still 9 unfilled vacancies on the council, so it's possible more scientists will be named later. But 4 now, #PCAST is heavily tilted toward extremely wealthy tech figures.
These include investor #MarcAndreessen , Google's #SergeyBrin , #MichaelDell of Dell, #LarryEllison of #Oracle, #JensenHuang of #NVIDIA , #LisaSu of AMD, & Mark #Zuckerberg of #Meta.
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https://winbuzzer.com/2026/03/25/trump-appoints-zuckerberg-huang-brin-pcast-panel-xcxwbn/
Trump Names Zuckerberg, Huang, Brin to PCAST Technology Advisory Council
#AI #DonaldTrump #USGovernment #BigTech #Google #NVIDIA #Meta #MarkZuckerberg #JensenHuang #SergeyBrin #AMD #LisaSu #Dell #Oracle #AIRegulation #Cryptocurrency #WhiteHouse #PCAST
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Trump staffs #PCAST, the President’s Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology with non-scientists
The list of appointees was finally released on Wednesday, and it’s notable for its almost complete absence of #scientists. PCAST is heavily tilted toward extremely wealthy technology figures. These include investor #MarcAndreessen, Google’s #SergeyBrin, #MichaelDell of Dell, #LarryEllison of Oracle, #JensenHuang of NVIDIA, #LisaSu of AMD, and #MarkZuckerberg of Meta.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/trump-staffs-science-and-technology-panel-with-non-scientists/ -
In 2002, then-president George W. Bush tasked his Presidential Council of Advisors on #Science and #Technology (#PCAST) with assessing the impact of the US research and development investment. The RAND corporation conducted the review and PCAST summarized the report for the President. It later shaped his call on Congress to push legislation to support #BasicResearch even has his administration worked to cut specific ideologically unpalatable research.
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