{"id":157896,"date":"2025-11-25T00:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157896\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:09:08","slug":"trump-signs-executive-order-launching-genesis-mission-ai-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/157896\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon <\/a>launching a new federal effort to supercharge American artificial intelligence research, development and scientific applications. <\/p>\n

Unveiling the new \u201cGenesis Mission\u201d to support American efforts on AI, the order charts out a series of steps to expand computational resources, increase access to vast federal datasets and move toward impactful, real-world applications, particularly in scientific fields. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Genesis Mission will dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development,\u201d the order states. <\/p>\n

Michael Kratsios, assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the Office for Science and Technology Policy, will lead the effort.<\/p>\n

Among other measures, the order charges Secretary of Energy Chris Wright with establishing a new \u201cAmerican Science and Security Platform\u201d to centralize the infrastructure required for the new push. According to the order, the platform will focus on providing researchers with the computing power and datasets necessary to train AI models. \u201cThe Genesis Mission will build an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets \u2014 the world\u2019s largest collection of such datasets, developed over decades of Federal investments \u2014 to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs,\u201d the order reads.<\/p>\n

The order opens the door to significantly increased public-private partnerships on AI development: within 90 days, the secretary of energy must identify systems and data available to support the program, including \u201cresources available through industry partners.\u201d<\/p>\n

AI systems require immense datasets in order to learn how to represent the real world. With its vast troves of information about Americans and their activities, the federal government has an enviable, but often decentralized and disorganized, gold mine of data<\/a> untapped by AI companies to date. <\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s order targets these barriers to data-sharing, giving Kratsios the responsibility to integrate \u201cappropriate and available agency data and infrastructure into the Mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

With increased computing resources and access to data, AI should then be applied to practical and critical scientific issues within 270 days, the order states. These areas of \u201cscience and technology challenges of national importance\u201d include advanced manufacturing and robotics, biotechnology and nuclear fission and fusion.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s announcement builds on the existing National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource<\/a> (NAIRR). The NAIRR was created in 2020 by the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020<\/a> to provide a shared, robust national research infrastructure to \u201caccelerate AI and AI-powered discovery and innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NAIRR started as a pilot program, bringing together a coalition of federal agencies, ranging from the Department of Defense and NASA to the National Institutes of Health, and nongovernmental organizations like OpenAI, Google and Palantir, to set up a nationwide research community.<\/p>\n

Lynne Parker, who co-chaired the NAIRR task force as deputy chief technology officer and is now associate vice chancellor emerita at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, said federal support for AI research is pivotal to future progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment support for AI research builds the foundation for new breakthroughs and helps keep innovation aligned with the public interest,\u201d Parker told NBC News. \u201cWe take for granted that new products appear regularly but seldom consider the decades of research that made them possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout long-term investment, we risk ceding leadership in the technologies that will define our economy, our security, and our daily lives,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

The Trump administration\u2019s AI Action Plan<\/a>, released in July, emphasized the role of national research and development efforts, partially stemming from the NAIRR, \u201cto foster the next generation of AI breakthroughs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s executive order came weeks after the federal government announced new partnerships with some of America\u2019s leading AI companies to build the next generation of AI-focused supercomputers. <\/p>\n

At the end of October, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a new partnership<\/a> with AMD to launch two new supercomputers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home to some of America\u2019s leading federal AI researchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinning the AI race requires new and creative partnerships that will bring together the brightest minds and industries American technology and science has to offer,\u201d Secretary Wright said at the time in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cWorking with AMD and HPE, we\u2019re bringing new capacity online faster than ever before, turning shared innovation into national strength, and proving that America leads when private-public partners build together,\u201d Wright said, referencing Hewlett Packard Enterprise\u2019s role in building the supercomputers.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of November<\/a>, the Department of Energy announced further plans to expand Oak Ridge\u2019s Leadership Computer Facility with high-powered Nvidia chips to tackle complex quantum-computing and AI-focused research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon launching a new federal effort to supercharge American artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-157896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}