Choblin(@choblin29):🚨EXCLUSIVE: Scott Bessent is emerging as the frontrunner to become Trump's new AI czar, according to Semafor, citing three sources familiar with the matter. That would put a very different voice in the job from former czar David Sacks. Michael Kratsios and Scott Kupor are also in the mix. Bessent has pushed for greater scrutiny of frontier models, helped develop a FINRA-like AI oversight proposal, and is now leading the US push for an AI-incident notification mechanism with China. He already called himself “one of the point people on our AI policy.” Now he may get the title too.

2026.09.22 18:51

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Scott Bessent is emerging as the frontrunner to become Trump's new AI czar, according to Semafor, citing three sources familiar with the matter. That would put a very different voice in the job from former czar David Sacks. Michael Kratsios and Scott Kupor are also in the mix. Bessent has pushed for greater scrutiny of frontier models, helped develop a FINRA-like AI oversight proposal, and is now leading the US push for an AI-incident notification mechanism with China. He already called himself “one of the point people on our AI policy.” Now he may get the title too.