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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