The White House on July 22 announced plans to invest $5 billion into its new Genesis Mission initiative to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) for science-related efforts.
“America has no shortage of bold ideas or talented scientists, and the response to the Genesis Mission proves that,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in the White House statement, which includes statements from many major government agencies. “The 278 projects selected today represent the very best of our nation’s scientific enterprise. The remarkable number of high-quality proposals we received shows that America’s innovation pipeline is strong, and it points to even greater opportunities for future investment and continued expansion of the Genesis Mission portfolio.”
The list of initiatives include the Pentagon partnering with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to use AI to “compress the design, testing and certification of conventional and nuclear weapon components” and joining the Department of Energy to accelerate quantum computing efforts.
The statement says NNSA will build AI workflows that “automate testing” by combining “decades of mission data, specialized test facilities, and supercomputing,” and another initiative said NNSA will apply physics-based machine learning “to quickly characterize and trace the provenance of nuclear materials and detonation debris to their source.”