Trump fires entire National Science Board

Firing the NSB is a decapitation strike on independent science oversight, signaling a pivot from peer-reviewed discovery to politically directed R&D. The move leaves the NSF's multi-billion dollar AI research budget vulnerable to ideological reallocation and risks the integrity of federal grant distribution. By removing independent experts, the administration creates a vacuum in AI safety leadership and increases the likelihood of politically aligned appointments, potentially triggering a brain drain of top researchers to the private sector.