terminating<\/a> UC research grants through a keyword search in the ongoing Thakur v. Trump lawsuit filed on behalf of UC researchers. Five days before the funding announcement, a district court ruled against President Donald Trump\u2019s administration for canceling active research grants in a separate lawsuit.\u00a0<\/p>\nDaniel Kammen, a professor of energy at Johns Hopkins University who was previously a UC Berkeley professor in public policy and the Energy and Resources Group, expressed concerns about the unequal funding distribution across disciplines.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Genesis Project is so massively slanted toward \u2026 AI research and where the president actually has some personal financial interests,\u201d Kammen said. \u201cIt\u2019s a sad state of affairs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kammen was previously selected as a U.S. science envoy for Trump\u2019s first term and resigned from his position in 2017 citing Trump\u2019s response to the Charlottesville \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The DOE\u2019s emphasis on AI funding comes as part of the broader administration\u2019s \u201cAI action plan,\u201d which cites a global race for AI development, and a mission to reap economic and military benefits. Last week, science and technology advisor Michael Kratsios released a report proposing a reduction in total university research funding alongside the push for increased AI funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Of the 278 projects awarded funding in the Genesis Mission, 151 are led by universities and 87 by national laboratories.Some researchers lean into AI implementation, where AI models can design research methods beyond human or conventional technological capabilities.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor STEM, AI is not replacing physicists or scientists or grad students,\u201dsaid Eric Ma, a UC Berkeley professor in physics and electrical engineering and computer sciences who was one of two UC Berkeley professors to receive funding, alongside chemistry professor John Hartwig. He added that anything built and set up by AI will not be the final product, and need to be \u201cvalidated by high resolution simulations or experiments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ma\u2019s research group intends to develop two AI models to design ion traps for quantum computing in this project, ultimately hoping to optimize both performance and scalability with micro 3D printing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to Berkeley Lab spokesperson Carter, the initial timeline of this first phase is approximately six months.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twenty-three UC and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory projects were among those announced under the Department of Energy\u2019s Genesis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[13567,166092,28118,7047,48514,166094,166097,50397,166098,166093,84109,28116,166096,143,145,144,166091,1519,5247,149,166095],"class_list":["post-415152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-charlottesville","tag-daniel-kammen","tag-department-of-energy","tag-district-court","tag-eecs","tag-energy-and-resources-group","tag-eric-ma","tag-genesis-mission","tag-john-hartwig","tag-john-hopkins-university","tag-jonathan-carter","tag-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory","tag-michael-kratsios","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-thakur-v-trump","tag-trump","tag-uc","tag-uc-berkeley","tag-unite-the-right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}