aceHow Immigration and Federal Funding Sustain American AI Leadership
America's leadership in artificial intelligence (AI) depends on two foundational inputs: international scientific talent and federal research funding. Using hand-collected data on researcher origins and startup founders, supplemented with large-scale datasets linking patents, publications, and funding sources, we quantify the contributions of each input. International researchers account for 66% of new computer science Ph.D.s and constitute the majority of award-winning authors at premier AI conferences, averagi…
The authors argue that immigration restrictions and federal budget cuts threaten the talent and funding inputs on which U.S. AI research and startup strength depend.
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- Peer-reviewedCommunications of the ACM2026-10-20
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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2134, v1: “How Immigration and Federal Funding Sustain American AI Leadership.” Truvace, 2026-10-21. /record/TRV-2026-2134 (accessed at citation time). sha256 0d4be668c00f3b0b…
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