Overview
- DOE published a 26-page list pairing each of 26 challenges with proposed AI approaches, rationale, and expected national impact.
- Targets range from preventing nuclear materials from reaching rogue actors to digitizing decades of nuclear data and accelerating fusion via an AI-driven digital twin platform.
- To coordinate the effort, DOE stood up a Genesis Mission Consortium with working groups on model validation, data governance, federated data sharing, and research throughput.
- Officials described this as the first set of challenges, with more expected as DOE expands AI supercomputing capacity and works toward executive-order deadlines later this year.
- Leaders outlined an ambition to double U.S. R&D productivity within a decade, with DOE indicating pilot projects could deliver early gains in the next few years.