New “Genesis Mission” Launched by Trump Aims to Fast-Track Science Using AI

President Donald J. Trump has signed a landmark executive order launching the “Genesis Mission,” an ambitious AI-driven initiative designed to accelerate scientific discovery across multiple fields. The mission leverages the Department of Energy’s extensive supercomputing resources and vast federal scientific data sets to create an integrated AI platform aimed at shortening research timelines from years to mere days or hours.

The Genesis Mission will bring together federal research facilities, national laboratories, universities, and private sector partners in a collaborative effort to enhance the speed and scale of scientific breakthroughs. By deploying advanced AI models and robotics, the initiative aims to automate experiment design, simulations, and data analysis, targeting critical areas such as disease treatment, energy innovation, and materials science.

The effort will begin with the existing supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s 17 national labs, although the administration intends to build more supercomputers.

It’s not clear, however, how the mission will be funded, and White House officials suggested that more help from Congress could be needed down the road. One of the officials on the call said the Energy Department already operates “some of the best supercomputing facilities in the world.” The official said that the administration will leverage all available resources and, with the help of Congress would “continue to invest increasing amounts for the success of the mission.”

“I think we will see unbelievable advancements in health sciences, so many diseases today that are unfortunate death sentences,” one of the officials on the call said. “We’re going to understand the exact chemistry and biology that they are and how to combat that. We’ve seen progress with that relatively significant progress the last five years. It’s nothing compared to what we’re going to see in the next five years.”