Top White House AI policy adviser exits amid ongoing oversight push

Thomas Lind, the ONCD’s head of policy and a senior adviser on AI, is leaving the White House, the latest in a wave of tech-policy departures after the AI security executive order. Lind helped craft the order and met with Google, Anthropic and OpenAI; his exit comes as the ONCD tries to implement new safeguards and a voluntary model-review system, with other AI-policy officials like Alexandra Seymour and Sriram Krishnan planning to depart. Critics warn that morale and staffing gaps could hinder the administration’s push to fortify cyber defenses around frontier AI.