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Meta's chief AI scientist has ramped up his criticism of the Trump administration, accusing it of starting a "witch hunt in academia" that could undermine the US's position in AI research. "The Trump administration has started a witch hunt in academia, moving to cancel the green card of some folks and expel them based on their speech (so much for free speech!)," Yann LeCun wrote in a Monday LinkedIn post. LeCun, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and one of the godfathers of modern AI, compared the situation to the Cold War-era Red Scare, referencing Qian Xuesen, a Chinese scientist accused of communism in the 1950s and deported to China.Qian later led China's nuclear missile program — a move Dan A. Kimball, the United States Undersecretary of the Navy, later called "the stupidest thing this country ever did," LeCun noted.
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