The White House just released the Genesis Mission, outlining a coordinated national effort to advance science, technology, and AI. It aims to identify major challenges across key domains and mobilize federal, academic, and private-sector capabilities to address them.
A core component is the new American Science and Security Platform. It will bring together national lab supercomputers, secure AI computing environments, AI agents for design exploration and workflow automation, predictive and simulation tools, domain-specific foundation models, secure access to high-value datasets, and advanced autonomous experimentation systems. This integrated platform could significantly accelerate scientific progress.
What I find especially interesting is the upcoming process of selecting challenges in six major areas. We still do not know which ones will be chosen. I hope AGI does not become one of them, even though many large AI companies are chasing it aggressively. The mission should stay focused on real scientific and societal problems where coordinated effort will make meaningful impacts.
And while we can ask LLMs to generate lists of challenges, this is exactly where human involvement remains essential. We need people to interpret the data we have, apply real insight, and make bold forward-looking decisions. But once the challenges are identified, we can go much further. We can map how these challenges relate to each other, analyze their likely future trajectories, and break them down into actionable sub-challenges that different agencies and stakeholders can collaborate on.
To do this effectively, we first need to retrieve and store the scientific and technical knowledge that shows how past challenges have been addressed and their impacts. Causal knowledge graphs are likely the best tool for this purpose. They allow us not only to identify the most effective strategies for tackling current challenges, but also to project forward and understand how solving those challenges might shape our future. This is exactly the kind of system we are building in our NSF APTO project.
The Genesis Mission’s commitment to empowering new AI systems and scientific foundation models also aligns closely with the work Insilicom has been doing. We look forward to seeing how this initiative evolves and hope to contribute in meaningful ways.
Which areas do you think deserve to be prioritized as national challenges?
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