President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday aimed at speeding up deployment of artificial intelligence with support from the Department of Energy to achieve “breakthroughs” in electricity, fossil fuels, health care and other sectors.
The “Genesis Mission,” which the administration is comparing to the Apollo program that sent humans to the moon in the 1960s, directs DOE to build an “integrated AI platform” to accelerate scientific discoveries and compile a list of technical challenges that could be improved by the build-out.
Dario Gil, DOE’s undersecretary for science, is being tapped to lead the initiative, which will involve multiple federal agencies and new computing power on everything from nuclear power to advanced manufacturing.
The mission will be “unifying agency scientific efforts and integrating AI into scientific tools … to revolutionize the way science and research are conducted,” said Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, on a call with reporters.
