TRUMP’S TOP AI BRAIN IS WALKING OUT — WHITE HOUSE AI ADVISER SRIRAM KRISHNAN ANNOUNCES DEPARTURE Sriram Krishnan, the senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence at the White House, announced Friday that he is stepping down at the end of June. The departure removes one of the more credible Silicon Valley voices from Trump’s inner AI circle at a moment when the administration is locked in fights over regulation, compute access, and the future structure of OpenAI. Krishnan is a former product executive who ran teams at Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook, and Snap before becoming a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He was widely seen as the technical conscience of the administration’s AI operation, the person who understood what the engineers were actually building while the political appointees made speeches about beating China. He is not going far. Krishnan told officials he plans to start an outside policy institution focused on technology and will continue to advise David Sacks and the White House in an external capacity. Whether outside influence carries the same weight as an office down the hall is a different question. The exit adds to a broader pattern of departures from the administration’s tech policy apparatus. David Sacks confirmed the move and praised Krishnan’s service. The White House has not said who replaces him. Keywords: Sriram Krishnan, White House AI policy, Trump AI adviser, AI regulation