Cabot Phillips

These are national labs.

And it's also directing those national labs to create one single coordinated AI platform.

I talked to a number of AI scientists for this mini documentary, and a lot of them said a big issue that they've been having is they're all working on separate platforms.

So they might have

Similar data, but they're not actually collaborating here because they're all on separate platforms.

So the Trump administration is trying to create one centralized place for all this research to take place.

Now, one of the biggest needs for the new AI software that's being developed is data.

These projects require huge amounts of data to train their software on real-world applications.

And the executive order is saying, hey, the government, if nothing else, has plenty of data.

So they're going to provide these private companies access for the first time to huge government databases on everything from energy grids, weather patterns, geological surveys, healthcare, you name it.

And then from there, the AI companies are being directed to use that data to focus their AI machines on what the government is calling challenges of national importance.

That includes advanced manufacturing, robotics, biotechnology, and then nuclear fission.

So basically, the Trump administration is telling the private sector, we have the data, we have the infrastructure and the money.

You guys have the technology and the engineers.

Let's work together here.

It's interesting.

The blowback has been more from the smaller and newer AI companies.

So a lot of the bigger companies, for example, for the documentary, I interviewed Greg Brockman.

He's the co-founder of OpenAI, probably the most influential one in the space.

He was all for this.