how the election result could affect scientists and science policy
[Trump] promised to repeal US President Joe Biden’s executive order on AI, a guideline released last year for developing the technology safely and responsibly. Trump’s pledge echoes the Republican party’s platform, which says that the executive order “hinders AI Innovation” (…) “The emphasis will shift away from the regulatory environment” and towards technology companies making their own voluntary decisions on safety,” says Suresh Venkatasubramanian, director of the CNTR at Brown University.
on climate,
it will not be easy to undo Biden’s signature climate achievement: the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (…) Trump could have a bigger — and more negative — impact on climate progress if he moves to weaken climate regulations (…) increases the cost of clean-energy technologies (…) [and] pulls the United States out of the 2015 Paris agreement,
on health.
Trump has said that he will let Kennedy, who has questioned the effectiveness of vaccines, “go wild on” health (…) [and the US] support for global health is also likely to be “greatly scaled back” during Trump’s second term.
and on science in general
it’s unclear whether the second Trump administration will revive the China Initiative, although the House of Representatives advanced legislation in September that would do so. But a reinstatement of the travel ban [for half a dozen countries] is likely (…) [and] will make it harder for new scientific collaborations to arise
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