Trump administration closes loophole that allowed O-1 visa holders including advanced researchers at OpenAI to remain in the US during green card applications
Applicants must now pursue consular processing abroad with years-long waits.
The new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.
#373Reid Hoffman@REIDHOFFMANDoes this mean AI Researchers, employees, and students will now have to leave the country and wait through a backlog process to continue their work?
Harmful move for tech, business, and America broadly...
#427Yuchen Jin@YUCHENJ_UWInsane if true.
So 50% of OpenAI researchers have to leave the US and return to their home countries to apply for a green card?
Don’t drive talent away.
#839Beff (e/acc)@BEFFJEZOSSo basically all elite founders of multi-billion dollar companies contributing to AI and defense have to stop their work in order to convert to GC?
Make it make sense.
#839Beff (e/acc)@BEFFJEZOS90% of attention was from immigrants in tech on a visa.
This single work produced tens of trillions in market value.
Stopping skilled immigration or making it ridiculously hard stops this miracle from happening again.
Death of the American Dream
Bruno Faviero@BfavieroAttention Is All You Need, one of the most important AI papers ever.... 7/8 authors were foreign nationals on work/student visas from India, UK, Canada, Ukraine. If we want USA dominance in AI (and tech broadly), we need to attract and retain global ultra-high-skilled talent.
#839Beff (e/acc)@BEFFJEZOSFeeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years.
Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
Theo - t3.gg@theoThis sucks. America should welcome greatness. Builders, innovators, and creators should have a fast path to citizenship. I can’t fathom why we would make life harder for founders starting billion dollar companies that want to anchor themselves in the US.
Honestly pretty devastating.
Founders can't afford to leave the country while managing a billion dollar company.
This will also affect many employees who are some of the top scientists in the world in their specialty, working on mission critical tech for the US.
Sad day.
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezosFeeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
#839Beff (e/acc)@BEFFJEZOSCorrect, this is a terrible move.
Andrew Ng@AndrewYNgThe new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.
#839Beff (e/acc)@BEFFJEZOSHey @nikitabier I found the perfect foreign bot bait.
Just look at the replies and get to work
Beff (e/acc)@beffjezosFeeling robbed of my path to citizenship right now after grinding a PhD and contributing to foundational AI + computing technologies for the United States for the past ~ 10 years. Feels like robbing top and technologists like me of the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
Every tech executive and startup accelerator manager with access to the President should call him to let him know this immigration policy change is a bad idea, and there needs to be a waiver for skilled AI / advanced tech employees
#1670Kim-Mai Cutler@KIMMAICUTLERGuess all those brilliant PhDs will have to go home and contribute to competitive sovereign AGI elsewhere.
#1675Anshul Kundaje@ANSHULKUNDAJEOh it's going to be tons of fun swatting the horde of racist anonymous cowards & bots converging on this tweet. I'm bringing back the melting snowman
Anshul Kundaje@anshulkundajeThis administration entire policy is to torture hard working people who actually contribute to the nation. This will lead to faster decline & push even more skilled immigrants to other nations. A special congrats to tech/biotechMAGA.
#1675Anshul Kundaje@ANSHULKUNDAJEThis administration entire policy is to torture hard working people who actually contribute to the nation. This will lead to faster decline & push even more skilled immigrants to other nations. A special congrats to tech/biotechMAGA.
Andrew Ng@AndrewYNgThe new White House policy requiring green card applicants to apply from outside the US is a capricious attack on legal immigration. It will hurt families, leave us with fewer doctors, teachers and scientists, and hurt American competitiveness in AI.