The council will advise Trump on artificial intelligence, the economy, education, and national and homeland security.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and Google cofounder Sergey Brin are the first four members of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), according to the Wall Street Journal.
The panel will have 13 members initially, possibly expanding to 24. Trump’s AI and crypto czar David Sacks and White House tech advisor Michael Kratsios will co-chair the panel.
The White House stated in January that PCAST will advise the President on science, technology, education, and innovation policy. The council will also provide scientific and technical information for public policy related to the American economy, workers, national and homeland security, and more.
Trump appointed a similar panel in his first term, but it included fewer tech CEOs. The 2026 panel’s first four members, especially Zuckerberg and Huang, have strong ties to the AI industry, which Trump has been attempting to block states from regulating in the past year.
Zuckerberg and Ellison also have a history with the Trump administration. Meta, at the center of a legal battle over children’s safety on its platforms, previously donated to Trump. Ellison’s Oracle was crucial to Trump’s deal to divest TikTok earlier this year. Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin both attended Trump’s 2025 inauguration.