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Exclusive: Trump pushes out AI experts hired by Biden


More than 200 AI experts had been deployed throughout the federal government. Most of them are now gone.

On April 3, Russell Vought, Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, released a 25-page memo for how federal leaders were expected to accelerate the government’s use of AI. “Agencies should focus recruitment efforts on individuals that have demonstrated operational experience in designing, deploying, and scaling AI systems in high-impact environments,” Vought wrote. Putting that into action will be harder than it needed to be, says Deirdre Mulligan, who directed the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office in the Biden White House.

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