Pam Bondi joins Trump White House AI panel after ouster

President Donald Trump has appointed former attorney general Pam Bondi to a White House advisory panel on artificial intelligence, according to reports by Axios and Reuters, giving a recently ousted Trump ally a role in the administration’s AI policy effort.

Axios reported that the panel will be chaired by White House AI adviser David Sacks and will include more than a dozen technology executives, including Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. The move brings Bondi back into the White House’s policy orbit after her departure from the Justice Department and places a close Trump ally inside a forum expected to help shape the administration’s approach to artificial intelligence.

Vice President JD Vance described the appointment as a continuation of Bondi’s work for Trump.

“Pam has been an enormously valuable asset to the president’s team, and I’m thrilled for her and for all of us that she’s going to remain involved in confronting some of the most important issues the administration faces,” Vance said, according to Axios.

Neither outlet has reported a formal public mandate for the panel or a timetable for meetings and recommendations. But the membership matters because advisory groups often determine which companies and aides get early access to White House debates before agencies turn policy into rules, procurement choices or guidance.

Why the panel matters

Trump has treated AI as a strategic issue inside the White House, not just a technology beat.

The administration has tied the subject to chip supply, computing capacity, federal purchasing and the broader contest over which companies will help set the terms of US AI development. That gives the panel more significance than a routine outside advisory role.

Bondi’s background is in law and politics, not engineering. Her appointment gives the administration a trusted political figure in a room that, according to Axios, is also expected to include executives whose companies have direct commercial stakes in AI policy.

The industry lineup is broad. Nvidia sits at the center of the chip market that supports AI training, Meta is spending heavily on models and consumer platforms, and Oracle has been pushing deeper into cloud infrastructure and enterprise software. A panel built that way gives the White House a direct line to companies seeking influence over expansion plans and the government’s regulatory posture.

Sacks has become one of the administration’s main links to technology investors and founders, and Bondi adds a different kind of weight. She knows how Trump loyalists operate inside the executive branch and how legal and political priorities can shape access to decision makers.

Neither Axios nor Reuters has reported the panel’s first assignment. For now, Bondi’s appointment signals that Trump wants familiar political hands next to marquee technology executives as the administration decides who gets influence over US AI policy.