US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to establish ‘Mission Genesis,’ a national initiative that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to drive scientific discovery.
He likened the plan to the Manhattan Project that produced the atomic bomb during World War II.
The plan is part of the Trump administration’s strategy to strengthen the position of US technology companies in global competition, especially to match China’s advances in AI.
The order gives the Department of Energy the responsibility to develop an integrated AI platform that combines the country’s supercomputers, federal scientific data sets, and research facilities to accelerate discoveries in a variety of fields.
The move covers areas from nuclear energy to semiconductor manufacturing.
The initiative also focuses on a US science and security platform that provides access to high-performance computing resources, AI modeling tools, and large federal data sets to help researchers train scientific models and automate research processes.
The platform is expected to achieve initial operational capability within 9 months for at least one major scientific challenge, selected from 20 priorities that the Department of Energy will outline within 60 days.
The priority areas include advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear energy, quantum computing and semiconductors, where the US faces intense competition from China.
Meanwhile, the White House is currently considering legal action to prevent US states from independently implementing AI regulations.
