[ExI] How Trump Is Dismantling America’s Scientific Research Machine

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Oct 31, 2026 at 3:56 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> .>> On Behalf Of BillK via extropy-chat
> >…Won't AI  be doing all the scientific research soon?
>
> Ja, and if AI is doing it, why should taxpayers hafta pay for it?

Because someone has to pay for the data centers (construction, and
electricity and other costs of operation), not to mention cleaning up
what the AI gets wrong.  Also, the research is of value to the humans
a lot more than to the AI.

> The cool part about AI research is that taxpayers aren’t on the hook for it.  Rich guys pay for it all.

Demonstrably untrue.  They pay for some of it, but far from all of it.

Also, AI research is only a small fraction of all scientific research.