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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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