Trump Signs Executive Order for AI Project, Genesis Mission
President Donald Trump is instructing the federal government to collaborate with tech firms and universities to transform government data into scientific breakthroughs, following his initiative to position artificial intelligence as the driver of the country’s economic future.
Trump announced the "Genesis Mission" through an executive order signed on Monday, which instructs the Department of Energy and national laboratories to create a digital platform for centralizing the country's scientific data.
It calls for universities and private sector partners to leverage their AI expertise to assist the government in addressing engineering, energy, and national security challenges, such as optimizing the nation's electric grid, as per White House officials who spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity prior to the signing of the order. Officials did not specifically indicate that pursuing medical advancements was a component of the project.
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The Genesis Mission will unite our Nation's research and development assets -- merging the talents of exceptional American scientists, including those in our national laboratories, with innovative American companies; prestigious universities; and current research facilities, data archives, manufacturing sites, and national security locations -- to achieve significant speed-up in AI advancement and use.
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The administration characterized the initiative as the most ambitious mobilization of federal scientific resources by the government since the Apollo space missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s, despite having reduced federal funding for scientific research by billions and resulting in the loss of jobs and funding for thousands of scientists.
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Trump is relying more on the tech industry and AI advancement to drive the U.S. economy, evident last week when he met with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The monarch has pledged to invest $1 trillion, primarily from the Arab nation’s oil and natural gas resources, to transform his country into an AI data center.