The Trump administration fired a number of National Science Foundation employees who were selected for their expertise in AI, threatening the agency’s ability to maintain critical AI research, Bloomberg Report.
One of the affected sectors within the NSF, known as the Bureau of Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, plays a role in government grants focused on AI. According to Bloomberg, many review teams have been postponed or cancelled, which is funding for some AI projects due to layoffs.
AI experts criticized the Trump administration’s recent cuts on scientific grants, especially among the cuts advocated by billionaire Elon Musk’s ministry of efficiency. exist Post on XAI pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton called for the deportation of Musk from the Royal Society “for the enormous damage he has caused to American scientific institutions”
Only desire, unsafe fools care about awards and membership. History is always the actual judge.
Your comment above is careless, cruel and wrong.
In other words, what specific actions need to be corrected? I will make mistakes, but to solve these problems…
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2025
Musk answer “I’ll make mistakes, but try to fix them,” said Hinton’s post.
