President Donald Trump's cost-cutting measures to decrease the federal budget have already been backfiring. Federal workers are being fired and rehired. Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been deemed an utter failure as well.

And now, the United States' lead in AI technologies and Trump's own policy proposal to boost AI are under threat due to Trump's anti-science agenda, The Guardian reports.

Last month, the Trump administration released its "AI Action Plan," a policy guideline on how the country can retain its edge on AI over rivals like China. But with no research funding available, the plan won't amount to much, experts told The Guardian.

National Institute of Health's head of neural computation and behavior, Mark Histed, told The Guardian that while the e

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