Trump Administration launches AI-focused ‘Genesis Mission’

On November 24, the White House issued an executive order (EO), Launching the Genesis Mission. It is the latest action by the Trump Administration seeking to establish American leadership in artificial intelligence (AI).

Genesis Mission, according to the EO, will “unleash a new age of AI-accelerated innovation and discovery” by “[building] an integrated AI platform to harness Federal scientific datasets—the world’s largest collection of such datasets, developed over decades of Federal investments—to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs.” The Department of Energy (DOE) is tasked with implementing the mission with general leadership provided by Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Michael Kratsios.

Within two months of the EO, the DOE Secretary is tasked with identifying a minimum of 20 “science and technology challenges of national importance” to be considered for the mission. These areas should be consistent with the directives included in a White House memo from September 23. The EO goes into greater detail about next steps and intended activities.

Read the EO here.