Robots & Artificial IntelligenceDavid Sacks Forced Out of AI Czar Role, Now America’s REAL AI Planning Can Begin Posted on April 12, 2026 by Administrator David Sacks walked into the Trump White House last January as America’s first-ever AI and crypto czar, armed with a Silicon Valley network, a free-market philosophy, and a mandate to drag federal technology policy into the 21st century. Thirteen months later, he’s walking out of that specific role — not because he stumbled, not because he was pushed, but because federal law says 130 days is the limit for a special government employee, and he used every one of them. What he’s walking into is something arguably more consequential: co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, a body that now reads less like a government committee and more like a who’s-who of the companies that are actively building the future.
