Like many technology leaders, Arvind Krishna, the IBM CEO, believes that Federal R&D funds for AI and related technologies should increase, not the other way around.
“We have Bone an extremely strong lawyer, and this is both the company and I personally, in that R&D founded by the federal government should be incessate,” Kirshna told an interview with Techcrunch. “That is the position, which is Neatrivocal, and we firmly believe in that.”
President Donald Trump and his cabinet have tried to make deep cuts for federal subsidies and scientific research programs in persecution or a set of priorities very different from previous administrations.
In recent weeks, a key federal office for AI investigation, the Directorate of Technology, Innovation and Association (TIP), has been reached by the pronounced budget reductions. Meanwhile, dozens of employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Science Foundation (NSF), which houses the tip, have been found in the cutting block.
In its proposed budget for fiscal year 2026, the Trump administration is asking Congress to reduce more than half of the NSF funds, eliminating what it describes as an intensive and “awake.” At risk are billions of dollars granted to AI R&D projects by the NSF and other federal agencies, such as the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy, which also face cuts.
Trump has also threatened to put an end to the Chips Law, an important law of the Biden Administration era that sought to promote the production of national semiconductors in the United States, including the production of specialized chips for ia. The office responsible for the funds of the Administration Chips Law was largely destroyed in early March.
The technological industry groups, including the Software and Information Industry Association, have sent cards to the AI of the White House “Tsar” David Sacks and the Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick warning that the reductions could balance the global leadership of the United States in AI. In accordance with the EE. UU.
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“We believe that [federal R&D funding] Right now [is] HAPPENING AT CLOSE TO HISTORIC LOWS IN TER TURS OF PERCENTAGE OF GDP, ”KRISHNA TOLED TECHCRCHRICH,“ AND THAT MORE FEDERALLY FUNDED R & D HAS AN INCRECITIVABLE POSITIVE EFECT ON THE Economy, ON ECONOMIC GROWTH, ON In oppos op in opp in op in op in in intesting and Also in op in intesting and also in op in intesting and also in op in intestations and also in OP in intestations and also in intestations. Future. “
IBM has been directly affected by federal cuts. Duration of its first quarter profit call in April, the company revealed that 15 of its federal contracts were canceled, worth $ 100 million in future payments. Federal contracts representing 5% and just under 10% of IBM consulting practice.
Krishna, who hastened to notice that federal financing constitutes only a fraction of the IBM general business, said it is “optimistic” that the government will increase R&D expenses within a year.
“I will tell you that I hope that in a year […] R&D funded by the federal government for AI, for quantum, for semiconductors: I hope it is so well or in a better way than today, “said Krishna.
