Ready -to -demobilization operations that the Trump administration and the so -called Ministry of Governmental efficiency may come as soon as this week at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), an unreasonable agency responsible for setting standards that guarantee everything from everything from Cosmetic products For safe and reliable quantum computers.
According to many current and former employees in NIST, the agency has been preparing for discounts since President Donald Trump took office last month and ordered billionaire Elon Musk and Doug to reduce spending throughout the federal government. Fears were increased last week when some NIST workers witnessed a handful of people who believed to be associated with DOGE inside Building 225, which includes the NIST IT laboratory on the GaverHersburg campus at the agency, according to many people who were informed of the viewer. One of Dog’s employees said to reach the NIST IT systems.
Soon after the alleged visit, NIST leadership told employees that Duji staff were not currently on the campus, but office space and technology were provided to them, according to the same people.
Wednesday, Intuition and Bloomberg I mentioned that NIST has started informing some employees that they could soon be accelerated. About 500 recent developments are still in the event of a test and can be left more easily than they are expected to be affected, according to reports. Three Wire sources tell that the cuts probably affect technical experts who are in leadership positions, including three laboratory managers who were promoted during the past year. One person tells WIRED that official layoffs may come on Friday.
The White House and NIST spokesperson, part of the Ministry of Commerce, has not yet received suspension requests.
One of the NIST team, which was afraid of the discounts due to the number of test staff is the United States Safety Institute (AISI), which was created after former President Joe Biden’s comprehensive executive of artificial intelligence issued in October 2023. Trump. Trump. Eliminate Shortly after he took office last month, describing him as “an obstacle to the American leadership in artificial intelligence.”
The Safety Institute of Artificial Intelligence and about twenty employees work closely with artificial intelligence companies, including competitors to start XAI in Musk such as Openai and Anthropic, to understand and test the capabilities of their strongest models. Musk was an early investor in Openai, and he is currently sustaining the start of the start because of his decision to move from a non -profit organization to a profit company.
AISI opening director, Elizabeth Kelly, Declare She left her role earlier this month. Several other prominent leaders who have been working in artificial intelligence have left in recent weeks, including Reva Schwartz, who have led NIST to evaluate risk and artificial intelligence program, and Elham Tabassi, chief AI in NIST. Kelly and Zarstz refused to comment. Tabassi did not respond to a request for comment.
US Vice President JD Vance recently pointed to the intention of the new administration to cancel the intelligence intelligence organization at the AI Action Summit, a major international meeting in Paris last week, AISI and other government employees were uninvited To attend, according to three familiar in the matter. “I am not here this morning to talk about the safety of artificial intelligence,” Vans said in his first major speech as a deputy. “I am here to talk about the opportunity of artificial intelligence.”