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Secretary Chris Wright Discusses Genesis Mission AI Initiative With Bret Baier

November 24, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:07:05

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What happened

The program opened with President Trump saying he had ended restrictions on artificial intelligence and would work with partners to build the largest, most powerful, most innovative AI ecosystem in the world with one approval process rather than going through 50 states, as the clip stated. Fox News said Trump wants to streamline AI regulation and powering AI, and turned to Energy Secretary Chris Wright.

Wright said President Trump that day signed a historic mission reminiscent of the Manhattan Project that brought World War II to an early and successful end and of the Apollo projects that put a man on the moon in 1969: an all-in national effort to take the power of AI and pair it with the 40,000 outstanding scientists and engineers at the national labs, using the world’s largest supercomputers to advance innovation and science, fix rising energy costs, give citizens better economic opportunities, and make longer, healthier lives possible. The day was not incremental but transformative, he said, according to the interview.

Asked whether it was a moonshot for energy to power what is coming, Wright said energy is one of the great things the project will produce, but the announced project is really about applying AI to science, engineering, and national security — pivoting the same AI power used for language and search to the national labs’ incredible data sets to advance scientific discovery and solve the problem of an old, unstable, and more expensive electricity grid, as he stated it.

Why it matters

The Genesis Mission is the centerpiece of the administration’s AI-and-energy strategy, and Wright’s launch interview defines it: the national-labs system, not private chatbots, is where AI is supposed to produce scientific and grid breakthroughs.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: Wright’s November 24, 2025 description of the Genesis Mission — pairing AI with 40,000 national-lab scientists and engineers and the largest supercomputers, as he stated it — frames a program whose milestones are checkable and flagged for the scoreboard editor.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Joins Bret Baier on Fox News - November 24, 2025”, 2025-11-24 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-11-24). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.