Name: Sriram Krishnan
Title: Former Senior White House Policy Advisor on Artificial Intelligence
Industry Affiliation
- Prior to joining the administration, Krishnan was a long-time Big Tech employee and executive, having worked at Microsoft, Facebook, Snapchat, Yahoo, and Twitter. Krishnan also joined Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner in 2021 where he worked on a team focused on investments in social media.
- In 2023, Krishnan led Andreessen Horowitz’s newly opened office in London. The office invested in blockchain and crypto firms. Krishnan left the firm in November 2024 and the London office closed shortly after.
- In 2022, Krishnan also had a stint moonlighting at Twitter shortly after Elon Musk took over the company and terminated a large swath of employees.
Revolver/Government Experience
- In December 2024, Trump announced Krishnan would advise the White House on artificial intelligence policy. Krishnan later revealed that AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks had recruited him to join the administration. He served as a senior policy adviser until his official exit in June 2026, though David Sacks said Krishnan would continue to be an “outside adviser” to the administration.
- As a policy advisor, Krishnan was involved in drafting several key White House AI policies, including the AI Action Plan, the National AI Policy Framework, and the executive order directing the federal government to challenge state-level AI regulations. The AI Action Plan recommended a host of policy actions for federal agencies to enable data center buildout and AI adoption in the federal government. The National AI Policy Framework laid out similar priorities for Congress to adopt while drafting legislation.
- Speaking at the Politico AI & Tech Summit in September 2025, Krishnan said the AI Action Plan has three core tenets: ensuring the US can build the data center and energy infrastructure needed for AI, ensuring AI companies have the “capacity and resources” to be the leading models, and ensuring that the world uses American AI technology rather than Chinese models or chips.
- Speaking at the 2026 Hill & Valley Forum, Krishnan said the administration tried to “undo what the Biden administration [was] doing and really figure out how to make sure America has the energy it needs to win this AI race.” Krishnan said the AI Action Plan would do so by “mak[ing] it easy for our builders to build the energy capacity and data centers that we need through permitting reform, through various executive orders, through a whole set of other actions.”
- Krishnan was a regular part of White House delegations to foreign countries for summits on AI policies where he “advocat[ed] for the American AI stack.” He joined the US delegation to a February 2025 AI summit in Paris that was aimed at “strengthening international action towards artificial intelligence serving the general interest.” The delegation, however, did not include anyone from the Commerce Department’s AI Safety Institute.
- Krishnan also attended India’s 2026 AI Impact Summit that called for a “sustainable AI future” where “AI advances humanity.” At the summit, Krishnan criticized the European Union for its Artificial Intelligence Act, which classified AI according to its risk and instituted regulations mandating greater transparency around AI use, saying the EU needed to “be more focused on innovation, less focused on governance and less focused on doomerism.”
- Krishnan attended the September 2025 signing of the US-UK Technology Prosperity Deal, which featured a pledge by American firms to invest more than $40 billion in the United Kingdom’s tech sector, including AI and data centers. By December 2025, however, the US had told the UK government that it was pausing its commitments, claiming the UK was not adequately removing trade barriers including food safety regulations, online safety rules, and digital services taxes according to the New York Times.
- Krishnan defended the administration’s AI chip exporting policies in an interview at the Politico AI Summit, saying it would increase the revenue for American companies. In response to a question about the administration allowing chip exports to China, Krishnan said the administration wanted to export American AI chips because “we want to make sure that our ecosystem has market share.”
- Krishnan also argued that the government should take a hands off approach, quoting David Sacks’ mentality that the government should “let them cook,” when referring to US tech companies.
Government Affairs
- While Krishnan was a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, the firm’s founders were major backers of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 million to the Trump-aligned Right for America PAC, and $12.5 million each to the crypto super PAC Fairshake.
- In 2024, Andreessen Horowitz also spent $100,000 on lobbying Congress on issues related to technology, blockchain, crypto, and energy policy.
- In 2023, Andreessen Horowitz spent $30,000 on lobbying Congress on issues relating to artificial intelligence in health care, drug and device approval, reimbursement policies.
State Level Action
- Krishnan celebrated the White House executive order aimed at preempting states’ regulation of artificial intelligence. Krishnan was present at the Oval Office signing of the order and later said it would protect AI companies from “onerous state laws” and ensure that the US will “dominate and lead in this AI race.”
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