Politico March 3, 2025
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A former university chancellor warns that the federal government’s funding cuts could undermine the innovation economy — including the types of research that led to the development of artificial intelligence.
Nicholas B. Dirks, president and CEO of the New York Academy of Sciences and a former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, is deeply familiar with how research propels the innovation economy.
The background: Congress stifled its own efforts to fund AI and the chips that power it by slashing funding for the National Science Foundation last year under the Biden administration. This year, the Trump administration has gone further, firing 168 National Science Foundation staffers and, at one point, freezing funding to ensure grants aligned with...
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