“The Genesis Mission will bring together our nation’s research and development resources – combining the efforts of brilliant American scientists, including those from our national laboratories, with pioneering American companies; world-renowned universities; and existing research infrastructure, data repositories, manufacturing plants, and national security sites – to achieve a dramatic acceleration in the development and use of AI,” the White House press release said.
The Department of Energy will lead the initiative, leveraging resources such as its network of national laboratories and their world-class supercomputers. The Secretary of Energy will be responsible for implementing Genesis across the agency.
A U.S. science and security platform will serve as the core infrastructure to support Genesis operations, including high-performance computing, AI modeling and analysis, running domain-specific base models, and working with experimental tools, among other things.
The platform will be used by agencies participating in Genesis and will pay particular attention to the top 20 scientific and technological challenges deemed of national importance by the Secretary of Energy, “including biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics,” according to a White House fact sheet.
Access to federal data will be crucial for Genesis. The Secretary of Energy will also be tasked with identifying what federal data is best for the initiative, including digitization, standardization, metadata and provenance tracking information.
Participating agencies may collaborate with external entities such as private companies and academic institutions. Some experts have already applauded the effort.
“With the Genesis Mission, the United States will make accelerating scientific discovery with AI a government-wide priority. Congress has already endorsed this agenda with the bipartisan American Science Acceleration Project, and now the administration has committed in the same direction,” Center for Data Innovation senior policy manager Hodan Omaar said in a statement. “A faster, more efficient research system will stretch every federal dollar further and shave years off development timelines.”
Trump has previously talked about the US being the country with the strongest AI ecosystem, with China in second place. The government’s AI policy is primarily aimed at adopting a relaxed regulatory approach under federal law, in an effort to stimulate innovation in the private sector.
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