Washington — President Trump on Monday signed an executive order meant to accelerate scientific discovery through the use of artificial intelligence, directing the Energy Department and its national labs to build an integrated AI platform using their existing and future supercomputers.

The goal of what the White House is calling the "Genesis Mission" is to speed the research and scientific discovery process by analyzing massive data sets in the science, engineering, energy and health care spaces from the federal government, university and private sector with supercomputing technology. It's an AI initiative the White House hopes will result in quicker breakthroughs in areas of research including disease therapies.

Michael Krastios, science adviser to the president, told reporters on

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