United States President Donald Trump has launched a bold new initiative aimed at accelerating scientific breakthroughs through artificial intelligence (AI). Named the Genesis Mission, the program seeks to integrate the nation’s AI capabilities, supercomputing resources, and research infrastructure into a single, cooperative platform for experimentation and discovery.

Executive Order Establishes AI Research Platform

On Monday, Trump signed an executive order directing US Energy Secretary Chris Wright to coordinate the country’s 17 national laboratories into a unified system for AI-driven research. The order calls for the creation of a “closed-loop AI experimentation platform,” combining advanced AI models with high-performance supercomputers and massive data repositories.

The White House compared the initiative to the historic Apollo program, which put the first humans on the moon, emphasizing that the Genesis Mission targets the “greatest scientific challenges of our time,” including:

• Nuclear fusion
• Next-generation semiconductors
• Critical materials research
• Space exploration

White House science adviser Michael Kratsios described the mission as a “revolutionary approach” to scientific research, linking world-class AI with leading-edge scientific data to accelerate progress in medicine, energy, materials science, and national security.

Public-Private Partnerships

Major technology companies have joined the initiative. Chipmaker Nvidia and AI startup Anthropic announced partnerships with the Trump administration to connect government, industry, and academia.

“Uniting the National Labs, USG, industry, and academia, this effort will connect America’s leading supercomputers, AI systems, and next-generation quantum machines into the most complex scientific instrument ever built – accelerating breakthroughs in energy, discovery, and national security,” Nvidia said in a social media post.

The initiative reflects Trump’s broader agenda to deregulate AI and position the US as a global leader in emerging technologies. Last week, he urged Congress to establish a national standard for AI, criticizing individual state regulations as overly restrictive:

“Overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Growth Engine. We MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Experts Weigh In

AI experts have praised the initiative as a significant step toward broad access to AI research tools. Benjamin H. Bratton of the University of California, San Diego, noted that the key is universal access to AI:

“It is less important ‘whose’ AI people have access to than that they have universal access at all. Those locked out of positions of artificially scarce social agency have the most to gain,” Bratton said.

He added that attempts to limit AI, especially in the US and EU, often protect entrenched economic and political interests rather than foster innovation.

Implications for Science and National Security

The Genesis Mission is expected to accelerate advancements across multiple sectors, including energy, medicine, and quantum computing, while enhancing US technological competitiveness on a global scale. By leveraging AI as a research tool, the administration hopes to make breakthroughs that were previously unattainable due to computational or logistical limitations.

The initiative represents a major federal push for AI-driven scientific innovation, combining government infrastructure, industry expertise, and academic research in a coordinated effort reminiscent of historical national-scale programs like Apollo and the Human Genome Project.