Secretary of Energy Chris Wright (L) applauds after President Donald Trump signs an executive order on Alaskan mining in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on October 6. On Monday, Trump signed the Genesis Mission executive order, giving the Energy Department the power to harness artificial intelligence to merge scientific research throughout the United States. File Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to harness artificial intelligence, through what is being called the Genesis Mission, and merge scientific research to “improve our national, economic and health security.”
The mission, which will fuse scientific data across the United States, will give the Department of Energy the power to use AI to unite what the Trump administration calls the best minds, most powerful computers and vast scientific data into one research system.
The order also calls for Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, the Assistant to the President for Science and Technology Michael Kratsios and the Special Adviser for AI & Crypto David Sacks to collaborate with academia and private-sector innovators.
“At the direction of President Trump, @ENERGY is leading a historic national effort to revolutionize the application of AI in science and innovation with the Genesis Mission,” Wright wrote Monday in a post on X.
At the direction of President Trump, @ENERGY is leading a historic national effort to revolutionize the application of AI in science and innovation with the Genesis Mission.
Together, America will redefine greatness as we launch the Genesis Mission. pic.twitter.com/0oj8rNPfql— Secretary Chris Wright (@SecretaryWright) November 24, 2025
The White House says the goal is to “stay ahead in the AI race” and predicts the Genesis Mission will impact federal research “within a decade.”
“I think it’s a huge opportunity for the United States to continue to outpace the world in scientific discovery and innovation. It’s a place where the United States has always, for decades even centuries, been a world leader in scientific breakthrough and this is the next big phase,” Kratsios told Fox Business.
“This is, what I would argue, the largest marshaling of the federal government’s scientific apparatus since the Apollo project,” Kratsios said. “It’s a special moment in our country’s history in order to remind the world just how amazing the United States is for scientific discovery.”
