The United States could soon see an exodus of tech talent, according to Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun. "The US seems set on destroying its public research funding system. Many US-based scientists are looking for a Plan B," LeCun wrote in a post on LinkedIn on Saturday.

The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White House.

Among the symposium’s lineup of speakers Monday were Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun and Ronnie Chatterji, inaugural chief economist of OpenAI and Mark Burgess & Lisa Benson-Burgess distinguished professor of business and public policy.