US could see exodus of tech talent, warns Meta's chief AI scientist
By : Sandhya
The United States could witness an exodus of talent in tech with many potentially setting their sights on Europe, Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun said. This is because “the US seems set on destroying its public research funding system,” LeCun wrote in a post on LinkedIn, stating that “Many US-based scientists are looking for a Plan B.”
This comes at a time when the Donald Trump administration has issued multiple executive orders to reduce funding for such ventures such as for the National Institutes of Health, which sends billions in federal funding for biomedical research.
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is also looking to cut spending on the NIH, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and NASA. LeCun then wrote a criteria list that scientists look to which allows them to be the most creative and productive.
