{"id":210577,"date":"2026-05-07T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/us-tech-official-calls-for-transformational-use-of-ai-in-scientific-discovery\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:40:13","slug":"us-tech-official-calls-for-transformational-use-of-ai-in-scientific-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/us-tech-official-calls-for-transformational-use-of-ai-in-scientific-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"US tech official calls for \u2018transformational\u2019 use of AI in scientific discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/us-tech-official-calls-transformational-use-ai-scientific-discovery\/413405\/\">US tech official calls for \u2018transformational\u2019 use of AI in scientific discovery<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/us-tech-official-calls-transformational-use-ai-scientific-discovery\/413405\/\">https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/us-tech-official-calls-transformational-use-ai-scientific-discovery\/413405\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-07 16:50:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nextgov.com\">www.nextgov.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Trump administration views the incorporation of artificial intelligence capabilities into scientific research as key for maintaining U.S. technology leadership, according to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Ethan Klein.<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Klein highlighted the goal of better integration of technological, developmental, testing, prototyping, and scaling processes using AI.<\/li>\n<li>Emerging capabilities like agentic AI, which can perform specific tasks with minimal human oversight, are predicted to transform scientific research and improve efficiency in scientific workflows.<\/li>\n<li>A recent survey by Market Connections found that 53% of government technology executives are researching or planning to pilot agentic AI applications.<\/li>\n<li>A significant initiative called the Genesis Mission, launched in November 2020, aims to enhance AI in scientific advancement, signifying the administration&#8217;s commitment to this focus.<\/li>\n<li>Amid increasing government operational scaling back and the dismissal of the National Science Foundation&#8217;s advisory board, critics worry that these may hinder the nation&#8217;s scientific progression.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US tech official calls for \u2018transformational\u2019 use of AI in scientific discovery https:\/\/www.nextgov.com\/artificial-intelligence\/2026\/05\/us-tech-official-calls-transformational-use-ai-scientific-discovery\/413405\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.nextgov.com\/media\/img\/cd\/2026\/05\/07\/050726KleinNG\/open-graph.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-210577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210579,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210577\/revisions\/210579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}