Over the past several months, I’ve been studying artificial intelligence — not just its capabilities, but its deeper structures, emergent behaviors, and, most of all, its philosophical implications. You can find my previous writing on AI here, here, here, here, and here. The more I’ve learned, the more my thoughts on the topic have evolved. It feels like every week brings new insights. Some insights confirm long-held suspicions; others smash pet theories to bits; a few turn out to be horrific revelations.

A project to create an “intersectional learning system” to advance “racial equity” in artificial intelligence education and a study “identifying systemic racism” in math teacher education were among the awards the Trump administration canceled.

Other initiatives include building a model to “accelerate transformations for environmental justice,” engaging “rural latinx” in an afterschool STEM program, and researching how “Storywork for Racial Equity in STEM” can be used to teach educators.

“This is exactly the kind of swamp-draining President Trump promised, and America needs,” said Jason Isaac, CEO of the pro-natural gas American Energy Institute. “For years, the National Science Foundation wasted taxpayer dollars on DEI propaganda, climate alarmism, and radical political activism instead of real science.”

“Canceling these grants sends a clear message: our government will no longer bankroll the left’s ideological agenda under the guise of research,” Isaac said. “It’s time to put Americas national interest, economic strength, and scientific excellence first again.”

Numerous canceled research grants involved left-wing perspectives on climate change, such as a grant for “Building Capacity to Institutionalize Equity in Outdoor and Environmental Science Education” and another for “Advancing Indigenous perspectives to address climate vulnerability in the Southwest.”