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New Mexico鈥檚 national laboratories will help lead the Trump administration鈥檚 push to use artificial intelligence to speed up scientific discovery.

Los Alamos National Laboratory will lead seven Genesis Mission projects and Sandia National Laboratories will lead six, part of the first round of awards announced Wednesday by U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright. 

The Genesis Mission is a $5 billion DOE program spanning national labs, universities and companies in all 50 states. 

The department selected 278 projects out of what it called the 鈥渓argest response鈥� to any funding opportunity in the department鈥檚 history, betting that AI can help double the country鈥檚 scientific productivity in fields from fusion energy to nuclear materials at a moment when Washington views its AI edge over China as increasingly narrow.

At Sandia, that bet already shapes how research gets done day to day, said Kevin Dixon, director of its Applied Information Sciences Center, whose team provides AI support across the DOE and the National Nuclear Security Administration.

鈥淲hen we can have scientists and people come up with ideas, we can use artificial intelligence to test those ideas,鈥� Dixon said. 鈥淲e can send them to a laboratory to automatically run experiments to test those ideas, to test new workflows. Are they better, more effective, more impactful? And that all goes in a closed-loop cycle. So the human is really just coming up with human innovations.鈥�

Indeed, much of Sandia鈥檚 research focuses on the best use of AI for research itself. 

One of Sandia鈥檚 Genesis projects is titled 鈥淎 Foundation Model for Bayesian Scientific Reasoning,鈥� led by Sandia researcher Tommie Catanach. The project will 鈥渄evelop an AI reasoning framework to help scientists design experiments, compare models and test scientific theories against evidence using Bayesian methods,鈥� according to Sandia.

鈥淏ayesian scientific reasoning鈥� is how our beliefs evolve when new evidence emerges, Dixon explains.

Some of Sandia鈥檚 Genesis work is less theoretical, however.

Sandia is also leading projects that will use AI to accelerate the development of fusion materials to withstand extreme heat and radiation, a Wednesday announcement said. Another project uses AI to map out critical mineral resources. 

Another project uses generative AI to improve our understanding of how clouds, precipitation and water systems interact.

Asked how Sandia is using AI to protect national security, Dixon wrote in an email that 鈥渘ational security means a lot of things,鈥� including economic security and energy security. One of the Genesis projects 鈥渨ill be using AI to evaluate structural materials for fusion reactors and how to join them.鈥�

鈥淓ven in small research reactors, these take a lot of punishment because they have to hold up in pretty extreme environments,鈥� Dixon wrote. 鈥淭his project will extend the life of these materials inside future reactors, which we hope will play an important part of our grid.鈥�

The Genesis Mission, led by the DOE, is a 鈥渨hole-of-government鈥� approach, marshalling agencies to use AI to improve healthcare, energy, transportation and national security, the agency said.

The six projects LANL will lead for Genesis will use AI to research fusion energy, ocean ice, nuclear fuel and other topics, lab officials said Wednesday.

Geoffrey Fairchild, deputy director of LANL鈥檚 Security AI Office, said when you 鈥渢race back to the beginnings of artificial intelligence you鈥檙e going to see the national labs have had a very solid presence throughout.鈥�

鈥淭he reason for that one of the things we are really known for is writing these really complex physics simulations 鈥� or just complex simulations in general,鈥� Fairchild said. 

In a statement, LANL Director Thom Mason said the selection for Genesis 鈥渞eflects the exceptional talent of our researchers and the Laboratory鈥檚 leadership in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence and scientific discovery.鈥� 

鈥淭hese investments will accelerate breakthroughs that advance national security, energy security and U.S. scientific competitiveness,鈥� Mason said. 

This is the first phase of the Genesis awards, the purpose of which is 鈥渢o identify promising pathways toward transformative scientific capabilities and establish a foundation for future investment and scale,鈥� LANL said.

Justin Horwath covers tech and energy for the Journal. You can reach him at jhorwath@abqjournal.com.