{"id":1038052,"date":"2026-09-23T10:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1038052"},"modified":"2026-09-23T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T05:04:37","slug":"us-treasury-secretary-could-take-on-ai-czar-role-source-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/us-treasury-secretary-could-take-on-ai-czar-role-source-says\/","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury secretary could take on AI czar role, source says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 22 (Reuters) &#8211; US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could become President Donald Trump\u2019s new AI czar, a source familiar with the discussions said on Tuesday, as fears grow among lawmakers in Washington about the risks posed by AI technology.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has repeatedly downplayed concerns about AI and \u2060argued that additional regulation is unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept 22 (Reuters) &#8211; US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could become President Donald Trump\u2019s new AI czar, a source familiar with the discussions said on Tuesday, as fears grow among lawmakers in Washington about the risks posed by AI technology. Trump has repeatedly downplayed concerns about AI and \u2060argued that additional regulation is unnecessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1038053,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038052\/revisions\/1038053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}