Overview
- The United States and 16 partner countries endorsed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science, which was issued Sunday at the Science and Technology in Society Forum in Kyoto.
- The declaration formally promotes using so-called 'super intelligence'—powerful AI systems—to speed discovery and enable autonomous, high‑throughput laboratory experimentation.
- Ministers backed experimenting with new funding tools and institutional models and welcomed metascience, the empirical study of how research is organized and funded, to measure what works.
- Critics, including the Union of Concerned Scientists, said recent proposed federal cuts to agencies such as NSF and NIH undercut claims the administration can rebuild public trust in science.
- The White House said follow-up steps will include a Washington summit and coordination with agencies like the NSF, which recently announced an Office of Metascience, and with private AI–biotech initiatives.