Scott Cooper

Overview

Scott Cooper is named by Marketplace Tech as a Superintelligence Force lead and an early employee of Andreessen Horowitz.

Current Profile

The episode places Cooper within the task force’s broader pattern of leaders with technology or investment-sector backgrounds. That experience may improve sector knowledge while also increasing the importance of disclosure, recusal, and independent scrutiny.

Key Characteristics

• Serves in a lead task-force role in the source’s account.
• Has source-described early venture-capital experience.
• Contributes to the group’s industry-expertise rationale.
• Also contributes to watchdog concern about industry proximity.

Evidence

• Role and background: Trump names his new AI task force the “Super Intelligence Force” supplies Cooper’s task-force role and Andreessen Horowitz history.

Qualifications

The source does not specify Cooper’s government portfolio, dates of affiliation, current financial interests, recusal rules, or any decision affected by his past work.

What Changed

• Created the profile from the Marketplace Tech episode.

Relationships

• Superintelligence Force - federal AI task force on which he serves.
• Andreessen Horowitz - former affiliation named by the source.
• AI Industry Self-Regulation - expected governance approach that makes independence safeguards salient.