Trump launches ‘Genesis Mission’ to harness AI for scientific breakthroughs

Donald Trump, president of the United States, has unveiled a national initiative to mobilize artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate scientific advancements.

Trump’s administration’s most aggressive strategy, which promotes deregulation, infrastructure investment, and public-private collaboration, was formally established by an executive order on Monday to become “The Genesis Mission.”

According to Trump’s order, Chris Wright, the US Energy Secretary, must unite the nation’s 17 national laboratories into a single, cooperative research system.

According to the order, US supercomputers and data resources will be combined to create a “closed-loop AI experimentation platform” in accordance with the initiative.

The White House stated that the “greatest scientific challenges of our time” would include nuclear fusion, semiconductors, critical materials, and space exploration, and compared the initiative to the Apollo program, which led to the birth of the first man on the moon.

The White House’s top science adviser, Michael Kratsios, said the ; scientific research was approached in a “revolutionary approach” by initiative.

The Genesis Mission uses cutting-edge technology to connect the most cutting-edge American AI to produce breakthroughs in fields like medicine, energy, materials science, and beyond, according to Kratsios.

On Monday, chipmaker Nvidia and AI startup Anthropic announced that they would work with the Trump administration on the initiative.

This initiative, which brings together the US government (USG), industry, and academia, will bring together America’s top supercomputers, AI systems, and next-generation quantum computers to the most complex scientific tool ever created, accelerating advancements in energy, discovery, and national security, Nvidia said in a social media post.

Trump has made reducing red tape a key component of his economic agenda since re-entering the White House to accelerate the development of AI.

Trump criticized state governments for their laws governing the emerging technology and demanded that the US Congress pass legislation to establish a national standard for AI.

On his Truth Social platform, Trump stated, “Overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Growth Engine.

Instead of a patchwork of 50 state regulatory regimes, we SHOULD have one Federal Standard. ”

The initiative was welcomed as a step in the direction of the “diffusion” of the technology, according to Benjamin H. Bratton, an AI expert at the University of California, San Diego.

According to Bratton, “It is less important who has access to AI that they do not,” Bratton said.

Cultural, economic, and political incumbents are the most effective at halting AI in the USA and the European Union. ”