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Kai Chen, Canadian researcher AI, who works in Openi, who has lived in the United States for 12 years, has been denied a green card, said Noam Brown, a leading scientist at the company. In a Post on xBrown said Chen found out about the decision on Friday and has to leave the country soon.
“It was deeply worried that one of the best AI researchers I worked with […] The American Green cardboard was rejected, “Brown wrote.” Canadian who lived here and contributed here for 12 years. We risk American Ai leadership when we distract such a talent. “
Another Openai Employee, Dylan Hunn, said UA publish that Chen was “crucial” for GPT-4.5One of the leading AI models of OpenSHIP.
Green cards can be deducted for all kinds of reasonsAnd the decision will not cost Chen her job. In a further postBrown said Chen plans to work remotely from Airbnb Vancouver “to [the] The clutter I hope it will be classified. “But it is the latest example of a foreign talent that is facing high obstacles to life, work and study in the US under Trump’s administration.
Openai did not immediately respond to the commentary request. However, ua Post on X last JulyAltman called for changes to facilitate high-skill immigrants to move and work in the US
In the past few months, More than 1,700 international students in the United Statesincluding AI Researchers who lived in the country for many years, their visas status challenged them as part of an aggressive action. While governing has accused some Of these students who support Palestinian militant groups or participate in “anti -Semitic” activities, others are targeted Smaller legal offensesuch as accelerating tickets or other traffic offenses.
In the meantime, Trump’s administration skeptically turned her eyes to many applicants for a green card, Allegedly suspending processing requests for a legal permanent residence provided by immigrants approved by the status of refugee or asylum. He also used hard access to the owners of green tickets that he perceives as threats of “national security”, detained and threatens several deportations.
AI laboratories such as openii rely on foreign research talent. According to Shaun RalstonOPENAI performer, which supports API users, Openii has filed more than 80 applications for H1-B visas last year and sponsored more than 100 visas than 2022.
H1-B visas, which favors the technological industry, allow US companies to temporarily employ foreign workers in “special professions” that require the least bachelor’s or equivalent. RecentlyImmigration officials have begun to issue “evidence requirements” for H-1Bs and other applications for immigration based on employment, seeking home addresses and biometric value, a change of some experts cares that it can lead to ups in rejected applications.
Immigrants played a big role in contributing to the growth of the American AI industry.
According to A study at the Georgetown’s Center for Safety and Technology Center for emerging, 66% of the 50 “most promising” American AI startups on the Forbes list “AI 50” had the founder of immigrants. Analysis 2023 The National Foundation for US Policy has found that 70% of full -time students have been associated with international students in areas.
Ashish Vaswani, who moved to the United States to study Informatics in the early 2000s, is one of the co-founders of Transformer, a seminar architecture of AI model that supports chatbots like Chatgpt. One of the co-founders of OPENAI, Wojciech Zaramba, earned a doctorate in AI by NYU on a student visa.
US immigration policy, reducing funding for financing and hostility to certain sciences have many researchers who have thought about moving from the country. Appropriate to Nature A survey of over 1,600 scientists, 75% said they were considering going to work abroad.
