“A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot
by Ashley Belanger from Ars Technica - All content on (#727NB)
By executive order last month, Donald Trump launched his so-called Genesis Mission."
Described as a historic national effort" to invest in AI-enabled science to accelerate scientific advancement," Trump claimed his mission would address key challenges to American energy dominance, innovation, and national security.
This mission, Trump boasted, would be a game-changer to science akin to putting a man on the moon or firing the first nuclear weapons. By building an integrated AI platform" trained on the world's largest collection" of federal scientific data sets, he promised, the government could set off cascades of scientific breakthroughs.