Sriram Krishnan leaves White House AI advisory role

Sriram Krishnan has informed administration officials that he plans to leave his post as the White House senior policy adviser for AI at the end of June to start an outside institution focused on technology policy, according to The Washington Post. The Post reports the initiative is in early planning and is intended to let Krishnan continue to play an active role in the administration's response to AI, citing a person familiar with his plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity. White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks said Krishnan will continue to work with the White House as an outside adviser. The Information, TechCrunch, and Bloomberg separately confirmed the departure.

The Washington Post reports that Krishnan, a former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was an architect of the administration's AI Action Plan, which the Post describes as a blueprint to roll back regulation and promote data-center build-out across the country. The Post also reports that top officials, including Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have grown more concerned about advanced models such as Anthropic's Mythos, citing worries that such systems can find software security flaws adversaries could exploit. Independent reporting has documented that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei met with Wiles and Bessent at the White House over Mythos, a model described as able to identify high-severity vulnerabilities and write exploits to demonstrate them.

Senior tech advisers drawn from venture and industry networks often act as conduits between Silicon Valley and government, shaping regulatory posture and infrastructure priorities. When such advisers move to external institutions, policy influence frequently shifts toward a mix of outside advocacy groups, industry coalitions, and other in-government stakeholders, changing the channels through which product, safety, and procurement debates evolve, even when the individual stays involved as an outside adviser.

Track who fills Krishnan's portfolio inside the White House, whether his new institution files public policy papers or regulatory comments, and how debates over models like Mythos affect federal procurement, cybersecurity reviews, and state-level regulation. Reporting by the Washington Post suggests those internal debates are already active and may shape near-term federal guidance.