Trump Executive Order Launches AI ‘Genesis Mission’
In its “AI Action Plan” released last summer, the Trump White House promised to “lead the creation of the world’s largest and highest quality AI-ready scientific datasets,” calling such information a “national strategic asset.” Consistent with that goal, today the administration launched what it calls a “historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project” that developed the first atomic bombs during World War II.
The “Genesis Mission,” described in an executive order issued Monday by President Donald Trump, is intended to develop “an integrated AI platform to harness federal scientific datasets” in order to train foundation models and “create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs.” The mission’s ultimate goals, the order says, are manifold:
The Genesis Mission will dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development, thereby furthering America’s technological dominance and global strategic leadership.
The order targets six priority domains: advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear energy, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.
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