President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday establishing the Genesis Mission, a major artificial intelligence initiative to transform American science and innovation.
The Genesis Mission is the largest marshaling of federal scientific resources since the Apollo program, according to Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
“This national AI for science effort leverages the unmatched computing capabilities and resources of the Department of Energy’s National Laboratories to unlock federal data sets, enable autonomous, closed-loop experimentation, and massively accelerate the rate of scientific breakthroughs,” Kratsios said Monday.
“This will shorten discovery timelines from years to days or even hours, empowering scientists to test bolder hypotheses and discover breakthroughs currently unreachable,” he added.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the executive order will “unlock American ingenuity, American drive, and the largest bringing together of scientific data sets of the top scientists across our 17 national laboratories, across our United States university system, and across the private sector businesses.”
The rise of AI in the United States has also led to the rise of energy prices for the average American consumer, which the Trump administration said the Genesis Mission would address.
“Americans are rightfully concerned about the rising electricity prices of the last four years,” a White House official said. “Electricity prices have risen meaningfully since the inauguration of President Biden, but meaningfully faster in blue states with energy subtraction policies. In fact, they’ve gone up by four cents a kilowatt hour in states with renewable portfolio standards and things that are preventing reliable, dispatchable energy.”
“Ultimately, AI and the build out of hyper-scalers will be a force to reduce the price of electricity in the United States and to increase the reliability of our grids,” the official said.
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Nvidia and Dell are among the partners that have already signaled their willingness to build supercomputer facilities, with “many more of those coming,” according to a White House official.
The Trump administration previously considered an executive order that would have banned states from passing new laws on AI, but walked away from that approach due to pushback from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.