Trump Launches ‘Genesis Mission’ to Harness AI for Scientific Breakthroughs
Washington, DC – November 25, 2025 — United States President Donald Trump has unveiled a major national initiative aimed at accelerating scientific discovery by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence (AI). The program, named “The Genesis Mission,” represents the latest chapter in Trump’s administration’s aggressive push to promote AI development through deregulation, infrastructure investment, and enhanced public-private partnerships.
On Monday, Trump signed an executive order establishing The Genesis Mission, which charges U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright with uniting the scientific expertise and advanced technologies housed at the nation’s 17 national laboratories into a cohesive, cooperative research system. The objective is to integrate the country’s leading supercomputers and extensive data resources to build what the order calls a “closed-loop AI experimentation platform.”
The White House has drawn parallels between The Genesis Mission and the historic Apollo program, which successfully landed the first humans on the moon. Priority research areas identified under the initiative include some of the most pressing scientific challenges of the modern era, such as nuclear fusion, semiconductor innovation, development of critical materials, and space exploration.
Michael Kratsios, the White House’s top science advisor, described the initiative as a “revolutionary approach” that seamlessly connects cutting-edge scientific data with advanced American AI capabilities. “The Genesis Mission connects world-class scientific data with the most advanced American AI to unlock breakthroughs in medicine, energy, materials science, and beyond,” Kratsios stated.
Key technology industry players have already pledged their support. Semiconductor giant Nvidia and AI startup Anthropic announced partnerships with the Trump administration to advance the initiative. Nvidia, in a social media statement, highlighted the collaborative nature of the mission. “Uniting the National Labs, US government, 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,” the company said.
This major new effort follows Trump’s recent re-entry into the White House, during which expediting AI development through deregulation has emerged as a central economic priority. Last week, Trump urged the U.S. Congress to enact legislation establishing a uniform national standard for AI, criticizing individual state governments for passing piecemeal regulations that, in his view, threaten to stifle the technology’s growth. “Overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine this Growth Engine,” Trump asserted on his social media platform, Truth Social. “We MUST have one Federal Standard instead of a patchwork of 50 State Regulatory Regimes.”
The initiative has received a cautious but positive reception from experts in the AI community. Benjamin H. Bratton, a professor specializing in artificial intelligence at the University of California, San Diego, praised the move toward broader accessibility of AI technologies. “It is less important ‘whose’ AI people have access to than that they have universal access at all,” Bratton told Al Jazeera. He added that many attempts to limit AI development and access in the U.S. and European Union often stem from entrenched cultural, economic, and political interests seeking to protect their domains. “Those locked out of positions of artificially scarce social agency have the most to gain,” he noted, concluding, “I support diffusion, not any particular administration.”
As The Genesis Mission takes shape, it aims to position the United States at the forefront of a new scientific frontier powered by AI, fostering breakthroughs that could transform fields ranging from medicine and energy to materials science and space exploration.
Reported by John Power, Al Jazeera Technology News
