Trump wants to turn it on again with 'Genesis Mission' for AI in science

US President Trump has ordered the launch of the "Genesis Mission," a national effort to use AI to drive scientific discoveries, with the aim of strengthening America's technological leadership and global competitiveness.

In an executive order published on Monday, the President declared that the country is in a race for global technology dominance, and so there is a need for a nationwide AI initiative, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that led to the development of the atomic bomb.

The Genesis Mission will aim to develop an AI platform using federal government datasets to train scientific foundation models. The executive order also calls for the creation of AI agents capable of testing new hypotheses, automating research workflows, and ultimately delivering scientific breakthroughs.

Among the goals of the initiative is to "secure energy dominance," using machine learning to try to solve problems around making nuclear fusion work ...