"On Monday President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at accelerating science using artificial intelligence, an effort dubbed the Genesis Mission. The order frames the race for global technological dominance in AI as comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project, referring to the development of the atomic bomb during World War II. The order comes at a moment when federal agencies have seen massive cuts to research grants and fundingand Trump's order does not set out a defined budget for Genesis."
"National security, scientific discovery and energy innovation are all highlighted as top priorities in the order, which states that federal scientific datasets such as those managed by NASA, the National Institutes of Health and other government science agencies will be critical to this work. Together, these add up to many billions of measurements, images and computer simulations about everything from the deep ocean to outer space to the human genome."
President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the Genesis Mission to accelerate scientific research through artificial intelligence. The order likens the AI effort to the Manhattan Project and prioritizes national security, scientific discovery, and energy innovation. The order identifies federal scientific datasets managed by NASA, NIH and other agencies as critical resources, comprising billions of measurements, images and simulations spanning deep ocean, outer space and the human genome. The Genesis Mission intends to use AI to automate experiment design, accelerate simulations and build predictive models for protein folding and fusion plasma dynamics, shortening discovery timelines from years to days or hours. The order lacks a defined budget and instructs the Department of Energy to identify high-priority challenges.
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