""China has fired their starter pistol and has organized what you would call the equivalent of their public sector. This is our answer to that," said Brian Spears, the technical director of the Genesis Mission leading the scientific and engineering foundation at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "This mission gives us a central, coherent and focused effort at scale in order to take advantage of what we can do.""
"At Lawrence, AI researchers suggest AI could be deployed to generate hypotheses and push those ideas to the edge. As artificial intelligence takes shape as the biggest technological race of the 21st century, the United States hopes to leverage its advancements to solve the country's most urgent and complicated problems. Spears said these include producing lifesaving drugs in years, rather than decades, and the quest to make fusion energy - the century-long effort by science to harness the power of stars on Earth - a practical reality."
Genesis Mission is a multibillion-dollar initiative to accelerate U.S. artificial intelligence and scientific capabilities, with a goal to double American science and engineering productivity within a decade. Bay Area labs — Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore and SLAC National Accelerator Lab in Menlo Park — will play central roles. The program frames competition with China as a driving motivation and aims for a coherent, large-scale scientific and engineering effort. Planned applications include dramatically accelerating drug development and advancing fusion energy toward practical realization. Department of Energy leadership cites historical national mobilizations and calls for concentrated national research and industry collaboration.
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