(No, not the Star Trek one, though that was the first place my brain went when I saw the announcement….)
How groundbreaking is the Genesis Mission going to be?
"Priority areas of focus include the greatest scientific challenges of our time that can dramatically improve our Nation’s national, economic, and health security, including biotechnology, critical materials, nuclear fission and fusion energy, space exploration, quantum information science, and semiconductors and microelectronics."
On the one hand, it's being spearheaded by the federal government, so it might be bloated, bureaucratic, and spend billions of dollars while never actually accomplishing anything.
On the other hand, the major AI players are all in. And the govt is handing over the entire federal database of historical science data to fuel it.
You probably know that I generally favor private enterprise and competition as the best path forward for the most progress for everyone. But "the Manhattan Project" is so well-known for a reason; sometimes, every now and then, a goal is so big that only the full force and weight of the U.S. government can hope to accomplish it.
Genesis is promising a revolution in biotech, space exploration, quantum computing and energy - everything us futurists dream of. It makes me extremely twitchy that "the catch" might be government control of its fruits, but I also can't help but be excited by the possibilities. What about you? How do you all feel about it?
As an aside, I saw a theory offered on X: that the government really does have crashed UFOs and a host of alien technology, and with Genesis they're planning to credit AI with coming up with all this technology they actually already have, so they can finally deploy it. In the past, I would've rolled my eyes and kept going, but all the recent, genuine reveals in the UFO space are now causing me to go, "Eh...it's not outside the realm of possiblity!"
Learn more here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/11/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-unveils-the-genesis-missionto-accelerate-ai-for-scientific-discovery/
