Reduction of Trump Administration may endanger efforts to study AI

The Trump Administration has fired a number of employees of the National Scientific Foundation that were selected for their AI experience, threatening the agency’s ability to maintain key AI research, Bloomberg Reported.

One of the affected departments inside the NSF, called the Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, was essential for the implementation of government grants focused on AI. Many review panels have been postponed or canceled as a result of cuts by postponing funding for some AI projects, according to Bloomberg.

AI experts have criticized the latest redundancies of the Trump administration to the scientific grant of grants, and in particular the reductions, supported by the Ministry of Government Efficiency of the billionaire Elon Musk. In a PostJeffrey Hinton, a pioneer of Ai and Nobel Laureate, has called Musk to be expelled from the British Royal Society “because of the huge damage it causes to scientific institutions in the US”

Only Craven, uncertain fools take care of awards and membership. History is the actual judge, always and forever.

Your comments are negligently ignorant, cruel and false.

This was what specific actions require a correction? I’ll make mistakes, but I strive to fix them …

– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2025

Musk replied To be Hinton’s publication, saying, “I’ll make mistakes, but I strive to correct them.”