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Chennai-born Sriram Krishnan is the latest addition to the growing list of Indian Americans appointed in the Trump 2.0 administration . He will serve as senior White House policy advisor for artificial intelligence (AI).
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ai among others. He is also an advisor to Indian fintech company Cred. He is known as the co-host of The Aarthi and Sriram Show, which he hosts with his wife Aarthi Ramamurthy.
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One handle on X called US Tech Workers called it “a very questionable appointment” by Trump and said it was “Not America First at all,” as they believed that Krishnan was keen to remove country cap quotas for Green Cards and expand the H-1B programme. Such critics believe these moves may harm American workers and prioritise immigration over domestic interests. Who are the other Indians/Indian Americans who will be part of the new Trump administration? Among the Indians and Indian Americans who have been appointed are Chandigarh-born Harmeet Kaur Dhillon as the assistant attorney general (US Department of Justice), Kolkata-born Jay Bhattacharya as the director of National Institutes of Health, Kashyap Patel as the director of the FBI, Vivek Ramaswamy as the head of the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Tulsi Gabbard as the director of National Intelligence.
Usha Chilukuri Vance, wife of vice president-elect JD Vance, will be the first Indian-origin second lady of the US. Andrew NG tweeted: Sriram has been consistently thoughtful about AI policy, including specifically the importance of promoting open source. His working with @DavidSacks on AI will be good for innovation and good for the US.
Thank you @sriramk for your service! Sridhar Vembu @svembu: Congratulations Sriram! Back in 2004, when Sriram was graduating from SRM University, I came across his blog – one of the early programming blogs from India at that time. I was so impressed I wanted to recruit him, but Microsoft already had recruited him. We have been in touch on and off as he later moved to Silicon Valley and became an entrepreneur.
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