Last week, Trump officially nominated Michael Crasthos, the first member of the Trump administration without science or engineering degree.
Scientific policy experts say that Klatsuos's wide experience in private and public technology policies and management makes him an attractive candidate. His expertise includes a central role in the early federal government's efforts to promote the rise of artificial intelligence and compete with China. He participates in a cohoat of a White House Advisor for difficult topics.
Nevertheless, Trump's choice has shown a clear break from a long tradition of presidential science advisors to produce top and deep science roots. Kratsos's appointment has warned other experts to reduce health and physical science budgets.
“This is a complete disaster,” said Michael S. Rubel, a former spokesman of the American Society of American Physical Society, a professor at the College of College, New York, and the world's largest physicist group. “Climate science is dead. God knows what will happen in biological medicine. This shows the beginning of the decline of the golden age of American science.”
Krasusos's nomination has been a deep change, saying Klasuso's nomination, Neil F. Lane, a science advisor to President Bill Clinton. “In the first Trump administration, there was a science advisor with extraordinary qualifications,” he said.
The official was Kelvin Dorogmeyer, a meteorologist who acquired a doctorate. Acquired a doctorate of the atmosphere sciences at the University of Illinois and Urbanha Champa. For almost 10 years, Dorge Myier has served as Vice President of the researcher at Oklahoma University, a pioneer in the development of weather forecasts, until the appointment of the White House. He also worked for the National Science Committee from 2004 to 2016. It supervises the National Science Foundation and provides advice that is independent of Congress and President.
Almost all of the previous scientific advisers have earned a doctorate of the elite University, which has a reputation for giving birth to a Nobel Prize winner. Vannever Bush, the first science advisor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, has jointly received a PhD from Mitt and Harvard University. He persuaded Washington to play a central role by constructing the first atomic bomb.
Victoria Rashivita, a spokeswoman of White House Science and Technology, not commented on Classus's choice. Instead, she listed a scientific leader who expressed his support for Krassios, including Sudip Parikh, the head of the American Science Association. Barbara R. Saider, director of the American University Association. Mark Becker is the head of the public land cultivation university association.
38 -year -old Krazios grew up in South Carolina, graduated from Princeton from Princeton and acquired a political bachelor's degree. He has no other degree. While in college, he was an internship by Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican member of South Carolina.
After school, he was an analyst in Wall Street and worked on an investment fund operated by Petielel, a Silicon Valley venture capitalist.
In March 2017, Trump appointed Krasuos as a vice assistant for technology policies early in his first term. He was the first employment of the administration in many openingings for science and technology advisors. In that post, he led the technical policy initiative on issues on issues such as AI, drone, quantum computing, and cyber security.
At that time, Dr. Lane, a scientific adviser by Clinton, called Krazuos in the New York Times as “technical inexperienced Silicon Valley finance companies that have acquired a bachelor of political science.” The title of the essay was “Trump's light DA for science”.
Many critics have blamed the Trump administration because many of the top science posts are open. For example, Trump has been appointed for almost two years before Dr. Dorogmeer was confirmed by the Senate as his science advisor.
Technical experts also accused the Trump administration that the US AI edge was transferred to China. Kratsios immediately led the powerful call of AI Initiative.
“We have to invest in future industries,” he wrote in a wired article in February 2019 about the need for a more severe AI policy.
At the same time, he played a central role in the birth of the Trump administration as the first AI strategy in the United States, known as the American Initia Chibiinisiabi.
In March 2019, Trump officially chose Krasuos as the highest technical manager of the country. This post, created by the Obama administration, is in the White House Office, a science and technology policy, which is the home of the President's science advisor, demands confirmation of the Senate.
In July 2020, the White House gave Krazuos a second job. In that role, he supervised the lab of a vast unit, including the labs of the department, the space development institution and the Defense Advanced Research Project Bureau.
For his service, he received the well -known public service medal, the best award given by the Pentagon to private citizens or non -public federal employees.
In an interview, Mr. Drogemeyer, the first semester of Trump's first semester, was called very clever and very well organized with Krasuos. “I have a really good vision for things and what I need to do,” he said. “He is watching through geopolitical lenses.”
Dr. Doroge Meyer, who often cooperated with Krasuos at the White House, added that he would “know what he doesn't know,” and that he would always be attracting experts.
He joked, pointed out the degree of Krasuos's political bachelor's degree, and after meeting early, he said, “I wanted that degree.”
After President Biden left the election in 2020, Krazus became a manager of San Francisco, a scale AI, a startup of San Francisco, which supports AI companies to polish their products. As a startup strategic officer, his main job was to support companies to mature AI pilot projects into mature and commercial markets.
In 2024, Pentagon chose a scale AI to support the AI model test and evaluation that would be useful for the fighter to make a decision.
The Trump administration has made AI a top priority. Trump has selected David Sachs, a conservative of Silicon Valley and a close alliance of Eron Musk, as a presidential election.
In an interview, Dr. Lane, a scientific advisor, stated that his criticism of Klazus in 2018 could not take into account the progress he did in technology career. He added that Trump chose him as a scientific advisor, given that Washington's current promotion of breaking China in a global AI race is guaranteed.
“Technology is a much higher priority for everyone in the White House than in the past few years,” said Dr. Lane, including Trump's first term. He added that he has made a science advisor with deep knowledge of technology and its mysterious complexity.
“He can point out a wide range of responsibilities,” said Dr. Lane, not only in technology, but also on his resume, including his employment as a person in charge of Pentagon research.
From the perspective of scientific policy and management skills in management, Dr. Lane added that “I can point out more important experiences than the doctorate.”
