On November 24, the Trump Administration announced the Genesis Mission to improve scientific research. The Press Release states:
USHERING IN A NEW ERA OF DISCOVERY: Today,
President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order launching the Genesis
Mission, a new national effort to use artificial intelligence (AI) to transform
how scientific research is conducted and accelerate the speed of scientific
discovery.
- The Genesis Mission charges the Secretary of Energy
with leveraging our National Laboratories to unite America’s brightest
minds, most powerful computers, and vast scientific data into one
cooperative system for research.
- The Order directs the Department of Energy to create
a closed-loop AI experimentation platform that integrates our Nation’s
world-class supercomputers and unique data assets to generate scientific
foundation models and power robotic laboratories.
- The Order instructs the Assistant to the President
for Science and Technology (APST) to coordinate the national initiative
and the integration of data and infrastructure from across the Federal
government.
- The Secretary of Energy, APST, and the Special
Advisor for AI & Crypto will collaborate with academia and
private-sector innovators to support and enhance the Genesis Mission.
- Priority areas of focus include the greatest
scientific challenges of our time that can dramatically improve our
Nation’s national, economic, and health security, including biotechnology,
critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration,
quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.
HARNESSING AI FOR OUR NATIONAL SECURITY AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT: With the Genesis Mission, the Trump Administration intends to
dramatically expand the productivity and impact of Federal research and
development within a decade.
- Despite research budgets soaring since the 1990s,
scientific progress has stalled—new drug approvals have declined, and more
researchers are needed to achieve the same outputs.
- Harnessing AI as a scientific tool will revolutionize
the way scientific research is conducted.
o For
example, AI technologies can generate models of protein structures and novel
materials, design and analyze experiments, and aggregate and generate new data
faster and more effectively. Research that once took years could now take weeks
or months.
- To do this, AI needs large amounts of organized and
high-quality data and significant computing power. These datasets and
computing technology already exist within DOE’s National Laboratories.
With the Genesis Mission, the Trump Administration is bringing the power
of AI to bear on our already expansive data infrastructure and creating a
platform for multiple Federal research agencies and the private sector to
collaborate to achieve breakthroughs currently thought impossible, and to
win and stay ahead in the AI race.
STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S AI DOMINANCE: President
Trump continues to prioritize America’s global dominance in AI to usher in a
new golden age of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national
security.
- In January, President Trump signed an Executive Order
to reverse harmful Biden Administration AI policies and enhance America’s
global AI dominance.
- In April, President Trump signed an Executive Order
to advance AI education for America’s youth.
- In July, President Trump signed Executive Orders to
prevent woke AI in the Federal government and promote the export of
full-stack American AI technologies.
- In July, President Trump issued America’s AI Action
Plan, a policy agenda identifying nearly a hundred Federal actions to
accelerate American AI innovation, build AI infrastructure at home, and
lead in international diplomacy and security.
o The
AI Action Plan includes recommended policies for investing in AI-enabled
science, including the direction to build world-class data sets.
- In September, the President signed an Executive Order
on harnessing AI innovation to unlock cures for pediatric cancer, using
the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, which President Trump initially
established in 2019 to collect, generate, and analyze childhood cancer
data.
