But Kratsios isn’t saying AI has no effect on jobs. We’ve already seen how complicated that distinction can become in the wider wave of AI-linked layoffs across major tech companies. Kratsios serves as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as the president’s chief science and technology adviser. He also helped develop the administration’s America’s AI Action Plan, which prioritises faster AI innovation, infrastructure construction and the international expansion of American AI technology. Kratsios said some companies may blame AI for layoffs they would have conducted anyway because the explanation “plays better in the press.”