Inside the White House’s Push for More A.I.

The U.S. scientific research model, established post-World War II, requires a fundamental shift to address declining innovation and rising costs. Michael Kratsios, Chief Science Advisor to President Trump, advocates for a "New Golden Age" of science that prioritizes superintelligence (SI) as the primary engine for discovery across material science, chemistry, and physics. This strategy moves away from a university-centric approach, instead fostering partnerships between federal agencies, private industry, and academia to maximize return on investment. Key initiatives include building compute consortia, establishing meta-science units to evaluate grant efficacy, and reorienting graduate training toward industry needs. While critics raise concerns regarding the concentration of economic power and potential political interference in grant allocation, the proposed framework aims to democratize scientific research by leveraging autonomous cloud labs and high-performance computing to accelerate breakthroughs.