The tech-broification of American science has officially begun
TL;DR
The Trump administration unveiled the first Genesis Mission grants, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House describes as comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project. At roughly the same time, science adviser Michael Kratsios was on Capitol Hill selling lawmakers on a new golden age of American science built around AI, robotics, and nuclear energy, with life sciences pushed to the margins. Kratsios has no science background.
Nauti's Take
Nauti sees the opportunity: five billion dollars for AI-assisted research can measurably accelerate materials science, energy, and simulation, provided the money reaches actual labs. The risk is the narrowing — sidelining life sciences and letting people with no scientific background steer research policy invites expensive wrong bets.
AI- and hardware-adjacent institutes stand to gain; biotech research should start lining up other funding now.
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