"Kratsios pointed to what the White House calls Winning the AI Race: America's AI Action Plan, which is framed around innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security. He also highlighted the Genesis Mission, an initiative that the administration says will promote AI as a tool for scientific discovery. Through private industry partnerships, the program, led by the Department of Energy and its 17 national labs, will pool federal scientific data and advanced computing to accelerate research, Kratsios said."
"The underlying thesis of Genesis is that the government has extraordinary, valuable scientific data that, when pooled together..., can drive tremendous scientific discovery, Kratsios said. By including data from health care agencies, the National Science Foundation, or the National Institute of Standards and Technology, for instance, Genesis's models might expand beyond DOE research. The ultimate goal, Kratsios added, is for research that took years to only now take months, weeks or even days."
Michael Kratsios testified about the administration's AI plans, including international collaboration and proposed regulatory approaches. Democrats questioned budget cuts to science agencies and efforts to limit state-level AI rules. The administration has framed AI as a central scientific priority since January 2025 and emphasizes two initiatives: Winning the AI Race, focused on innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security; and the Genesis Mission, led by the Department of Energy and its 17 national labs. Genesis will partner with industry to pool federal scientific data and advanced computing, expand across agencies, and shorten research timelines from years to months, weeks, or days.
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