White House wants to shift billions of dollars of research funding away from ‘slow consensus peer review’ and into individual scientists and AI

• The White House wants to reallocate hundreds of billions of dollar worth of federal funding away from universities and peer reviewed research panels
• The funding would instead go to individual scientists and AI-native laboratories
• The credibility of the plan is undermined by the US government's track record on science and AI

The Trump administration has unveiled plans to shift around $200 billion dollars of research funding into individual scientists and a ‘national AI-for-science initiative’.

The move would pull funding from university research and ‘slow’ consensus peer review panels in an effort to stay ahead of China, which is making strides to catch up in AI and quantum computing technology.

Plans were laid out in a new report, dubbed ‘Science: A New Golden Age’, presented to Donald Trump by the Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Michael Kratsios.

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