President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday launching a “national effort” to integrate artificial intelligence into research and accelerate innovation and scientific discovery.

The Trump administration has made AI research and innovation a top priority as it seeks to win the AI “race” against China. The White House said the new national effort, named the Genesis Mission, will be one of the largest research and development projects in the history of the United States.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright compared the effort that the Trump administration is coordinating for AI advancement to the Manhattan Project that developed the nuclear bomb and the Apollo Program that landed the first humans on the moon.

“In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was a critical basis for the foundation of the Department of Energy (DOE) and its national laboratories,” the order states.

The aim of the Genesis Mission is to build an AI model that will learn from and incorporate federal datasets “to train scientific foundation models and create AI agents to test new hypotheses, automate research workflows, and accelerate scientific breakthroughs.”

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The project will partner researchers at each of the United States’ 17 national laboratories with businesses and academic research centers to work on AI development and models.

“The Genesis Mission will dramatically accelerate scientific discovery, strengthen national security, secure energy dominance, enhance workforce productivity, and multiply the return on taxpayer investment into research and development, thereby furthering America’s technological dominance and global strategic leadership,” the order states.

The project will largely be run through the Department of Energy and its network of national laboratories that conduct some of the most sensitive research in the United States.

“The Order directs the Department of Energy to create a closed-loop AI experimentation platform that integrates our Nation’s world-class supercomputers and unique data assets to generate scientific foundation models and power robotic laboratories,” a White House fact sheet on the order says.

“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough laid into Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on Monday, criticizing her defense of a video in which she and several others in her party had actively encouraged service members to refuse “unlawful” orders from President Donald Trump.

Scarborough’s issue was not the fact that Slotkin, a former CIA analyst — and several others who had served in the military — had made the video insinuating that Trump either had already or would soon issue unlawful orders and telling military service members that they had a responsibility to refuse them. He did not take issue with the fact that she was defending the video, but rather, he was upset that she’d been unable to answer a specific question about it to his satisfaction during a recent interview.

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Joe Scarborough is very mad at Senator Slotkin for saying Trump hasn’t issued any illegal orders.

“Wrong answer!”

Joe then goes on to cite a hypothetical scenario of what Trump might do as evidence of illegal orders. https://t.co/viCkHoAxMJ pic.twitter.com/NNyUdgizPw

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Scarborough was responding to Slotkin’s answer to host Martha Raddatz — on ABC’s “This Week” —  when she admitted that she didn’t actually know of any illegal orders that President Trump had given.

“I’m sorry, with all due respect, wrong answer. President of the United States, the commander-in-chief does have wide latitude, just does. And the Senate can take that up. But he has wide latitude on strikes. Ask Barack Obama on drone strikes. Ask George W. Bush on drone strikes,” Scarborough said, referencing the Trump administration’s actions against narco-terrorists.

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“But where we know the president has said, I am going to give illegal orders to people in the military, is when he was on Air Force One coming back, I forget where he was coming back from, but he said, ‘I can send the Marines. I can send the Army. I can send the Air Force. I can send the Coast Guard into any city I want to control crime. And the courts can’t do anything about it.’ That’s illegal. It’s just illegal,” Scarborough continued, insisting that Trump had said he’d give illegal orders despite the fact that thus far, he had not done so.

“And so Democrats kind of need to – if the president has already said, I’m going to commit this illegal act, then I’m kind of surprised they don’t have the answer when they go on a Sunday show for that,” he complained.