WH Launches Genesis Mission for AI

On November 24, President Trump signed an Executive Order entitled Launching the Genesis Mission, which establishes a coordinated national effort to unleash a new age of AI‑accelerated innovation and discovery.

• • Full text can be found here
  • The Fact Sheet can be found here
  • An additional article from the White House can be found here

Some highlights:

• • The EO launches the Genesis Mission to transform the use of AI in how scientific research is conducted and accelerate the speed of scientific discovery.
  • The Secretary of Energy will leverage the National Labs to create a cooperative research system, focusing on computing power and data.
  • DOE will create a closed-loop AI experimentation platform to integrate supercomputers and data assets to generate a foundation model as well as power robotic laboratories.
  • The Secretary of Energy will establish and operate the American Science and Security Platform to serve as the infrastructure for the Mission.
  • The Assistant to the President for Science and Technology (Kratsios), will coordinate the national initiative and integrate data and infrastructure from across the government.
  • The Asst. to the President for S&T is also tasked with coordinating with NSF, NIST, NIH and other federal agencies.
  • The Secretary of Energy, Assistant to the President for S&T, and the Special Advisor for AI & Crypto (Sacks) will collaborate with academia and the private sector to support the Mission.
  • The EO also outlines focus areas to be addressed by the Mission:
    • biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics.
  • The EO also directs the Secretary of Energy to share a list with the Asst. to the President for S&T of at least 20 science and technology challenges of national importance that the Secretary assesses to have potential to be addressed through the Mission.