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   The Trump Administration just launched its own plan for global AI dominance   
   and what could go wrong?   
      
   Date:   
   Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:56:25 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   The Trump White House's Genesis Mission spells out a plan to build a   
   government-based AI platform. But who will it serve?   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   "What exactly is Genesis? Well, put simply, Genesis is life from   
   lifelessness." That's not a quote from the Trump White House's new Genesis   
   Mission proclama...er...Executive Order. No, that insightful notion comes    
   from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , where Genesis is a biome, or   
   biology-filled torpedo, capable of initiating life on a dead planet.    
      
   The White House's new Genesis Mission is  in a way  a torpedo full of ideas   
   intended to jump-start the US Government's position in the global AI race and   
   perhaps put us on equal footing with China, which initiated its own New   
   General Artificial Intelligence Plan in 2017 and ever since has been pouring   
   money into its development across infrastructure and private business.    
      
   With the Genesis Mission, which will be run out of the Department of Energy   
   (DoE) but under the oversight of the Assistant to the President for Science   
   and Technology, Michael Kratsios, President Donald Trump is codifying an   
   effort he began months ago when he started announcing billions in private   
   sector AI company investments.   
      
   Not exactly a new moonshot    
      
   Genesis Mission, though, is also different than any of the White House's   
   previous AI initiatives. It's reminiscent in some ways of the early space    
   race and establishment of NASA, and also the 1969 development of ARPANET    
   under the auspices of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).    
      
   The goal of NASA was to get our satellites, and eventually humans, into space   
   and to the moon. ARPANET, which eventually spawned the Internet and our World   
   Wide Web, was concerned with building the first network capable of connecting   
   computers around the US (mostly university computers).    
      
   Genesis Mission's stated goal is building "an integrated AI platform to   
   harness Federal scientific datasets  the worlds largest collection of such   
   datasets, developed over decades of Federal investments  to train scientific   
   foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate   
   research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs."    
      
   If I'm reading that correctly, this is the first US government effort to    
   build an owned and operated AI platform, one with its own infrastructure and   
   models, and that stands apart from what, say, Google's built with Gemini ,   
   OpenAI built with ChatGPT , or Elon Musk is building with Grok .    
      
   More tellingly, Genesis Mission plans to use government data for training.   
   Since US citizens own the government and the government is full of services   
   that serve US citizens, one must assume that much of this training data is   
   ours or, more specifically, about us.    
      
   While there are indications that the US Government will work with    
   universities and private companies for some of this, it's clear that the   
   Genesis Mission will be making much of the platform's inner workings on its   
   own. The exec order describes the creation of the American Science and   
   Security Platform as the infrastructure that will include:   
      
    High-performance computing resources   
    AI modeling and analysis frameworks   
    Computational tools   
    Domain-specific foundation models   
    Experimental and production tools to enable autonomous and AI-augmented   
      experimentation and manufacturing in high-impact domains   
      
   Following this path, our data will be building models in a home-grown, US   
   Government facility, a sort of black box of AI creations  a Genesis that   
   brings inert data to life.    
      
   As for the areas of Genesis Mission AI interest, they include:   
    Advanced manufacturing   
    Biotechnology Critical materials   
    Nuclear fission and fusion energy   
    Quantum information science   
    Semiconductors and microelectronics   
      
   None of these categories is surprising, but a government agency building vast   
   AI networks capable of "automating research workflows" on touchy areas like   
   nuclear fission and biotechnology should give some pause.    
      
   I'm not saying I do not want AI to solve some of our biggest problems .   
   Certainly, cancer is at the top of my list, as is sustainable energy as it   
   applies to climate change. But the exec order makes zero mention of those two   
   persistent issues. The Genesis Mission is far more concerned with winning the   
   global AI war and advancing the business of AI than it is with solving actual   
   human problems.    
      
   Which brings me back to what the Genesis Mission is and what it might create.   
   This is an administration that's siphoned more than a billion dollars from   
   universities engaged in critical health research , but it will spend tax   
   dollars (via the DOE) on this effort. There's nothing in the Genesis Mission   
   that mentions the common good or humanity. In fact, the words "humanity,"   
   "humans," "people," "citizens," and "life" are all missing from this   
   approximately 3,400-word document. It's a lifeless construct better suited to   
   an omniscient AI than it is a life-altering, humanity-lifting "mission."    
      
   Put simply, it has all the ingredients of Skynet V. 1.    
      
   Fun fact about the Wrath of Khan's Genesis torpedo: even though it was   
   designed as a life-germinating technology, it also doubled as a doomsday   
   device because its "life-giving" capabilities could also be used to overwrite   
   civilizations.    
      
   The question we have to ask ourselves about this new Genesis Mission is this:   
   will it give us new life and opportunities, or eventually use what it knows   
   about us to overwrite our existence?    
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/ai-platforms-assistants/the-trump-administration-jus   
   t-launched-its-own-plan-for-global-ai-dominance-and-what-could-go-wrong   
      
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