White House wants to shift billions of dollars of research funding away  
  from  
  slow consensus peer review and into individual scientists and AI  
    
  Date:  
  Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:34:04 +0000  
    
  Moving funding to individual scientists and AI could undermine US  
  scientific  
  credibility at home and abroad -- 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.  
    
  Funding to be moved to AI and individual scientists -- Peer-reviewed  
  study has been the basis of American research since the end of World War  
  II,  
  but Krastios says that science must again be reinvented in a way that frees  
  American scientists to do their most groundbreaking work, revives the  
  national pursuit of ambitious scientific missions, and positions the United  
  States to lead the AI-driven scientific revolution that will define the  
  next  
  century.  
    
  The report is a suggestion of the direction the Trump administration wants  
  to  
  shape the future of federal funding for science, but the federal funding  
  budget is underwritten by Congress.  
    
  The point of peer reviewed research is to prevent research from being  
  performed in an echo chamber, to spot errors and misinformation, and to  
  provide criticism on research methodology and bias. By moving away from  
  peer  
  review and placing funding with individual scientists (likely vetted by the  
  government to provide conclusions that toe the party line), this shift in  
  how  
  academic research is conducted will undermine US scientific credibility  
  both  
  at home and on the global stage.  
    
  The report also suggested providing full funding for the Genesis Mission ,  
  which seeks to unite National Labs, industry, academia, and more to harness  
  AI for breakthroughs in energy dominance, discovery science, and national  
  security by creating AI-native scientific institutions better suited to an  
  era of machine-augmented research. There are obviously use-cases for AI in  
  science, but the US government does not have the best track record of using  
  AI for science.  
    
  The US government has already been previously caught out using AI to create  
  documents presented in hearings, with a research report presented by US  
  health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. being riddled with errors and citing  
  studies that did not exist - a classic case of AI hallucination.  
    
  Trump has also made significant deviations to the direction of climate  
  science in the US, with peer-reviewed authoritative assessments on the US  
  national climate being deleted from US government websites, the US  
  withdrawal  
  from the Paris Accord, alongside funding and staffing cuts across the  
  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Mauna Loa Observatory,  
  and multiple climate monitoring centers.  
    
  In order to maintain the forefront of AI development, the US is also  
  experiencing a mass-buildout of AI data centers to provide capacity for  
  usage, training, and development of frontier models. But this has presented  
  a  
  major challenge in providing enough power to sites already running, as well  
  as planned sites that will require multi-gigawatt connections.  
    
  Trump has encouraged AI companies and data center developers to lean into  
  fossil fuels to provide extra energy capacity, with many AI campuses  
  deploying natural gas burning turbines. Some of these sites operate at  
  noise  
  levels matching an international airport 24 hours a day, seven days a week,  
  with local residents reporting illnesses and symptoms such as dizziness,  
  nausea, vertigo, and sleep disruption as a result of the infrasound  
  emitting  
  from turbines.  
    
  Link to news story:  
  https://www.techradar.com/pro/white-house-wants-to-shift-billions-of-  
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