Trump Signs Order Launching Genesis Mission to Speed Science With AI

President Trump on Monday signed an executive order creating the Genesis Mission, a federal effort to use artificial intelligence to speed scientific discovery, CBS News and NBC News reported. The order calls it “a national effort to accelerate the application of AI for transformative scientific discovery,” and NBC reported that it describes the mission as comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project, according to the text posted by the White House.

At the center is a digital platform the order names the American Science and Security Platform. The Energy Department is to build and run it. The order says the platform should combine high-performance computing, including supercomputers at the department’s national laboratories, with AI modeling frameworks, scientific foundation models, secure access to federal datasets, and experimental and manufacturing tools. The goal is to train models on government scientific data and create AI agents that can test hypotheses and automate parts of research.

The Energy Secretary will carry out the mission inside the department and may appoint a senior political appointee to oversee day-to-day operations, the order says. The assistant to the president for science and technology provides overall leadership and coordinates other agencies through the National Science and Technology Council.

The order sets a schedule. Within 60 days, the department must give the White House a list of at least 20 science and technology challenges. Within 90 days it must identify federal and industry computing, storage and networking resources, and within 120 days the initial data and model assets. After 240 days it must review robotic laboratory and production capabilities across its labs. Within 270 days, it is to seek to demonstrate an initial operating capability for at least one challenge, subject to available funds. It must report on progress to the president within a year and annually afterward.

The challenges are to come from fields including advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics, the order says.

The order says its implementation is subject to applicable law and available appropriations, and it does not specify any funding, according to the order and NBC News; CBS News reported it is not clear how the mission will be funded and that more help from Congress could be needed. That leaves open how large the effort will be, since Congress sets the department’s budget.