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AI Safety and Security Research Program is sponsored by Department of Energy (DOE). This program funds projects aimed at enhancing the safety and security of AI applications in energy systems. It focuses on combining DOE's supercomputing power, scientific data, and AI capabilities to accelerate scientific discovery and address national security problems.
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A **. gov** website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. * Policy & PrioritiesView all Policy & Priorities * Increase American Energy Production Expanding domestic energy resources to support national needs and economic growth.
* Energy Innovation Driving research and development to shape the future of energy systems and technologies. * Energy Exports Supporting global energy markets through U.S. energy production and trade. * Affordable Energy for Consumers Promoting access to reliable and cost-effective energy for households and businesses.
* Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR)Managing emergency fuel reserves to support national energy security. * Nuclear Security Maintaining the safety, security, and effectiveness of the nation’s nuclear deterrent. * Nuclear Energy Advancing nuclear technologies to support energy, security, and innovation goals.
* Energy Reliability Ensuring consistent and dependable energy delivery across the nation. * Energy Infrastructure Strengthening and modernizing the systems that produce, deliver, and store energy.
* Leadership & Organization * Leadership & OrganizationView all Leadership & Organization * Chris Wright Secretary of Energy James Danly Deputy Secretary of Energy * Leadership & Organization Pages * Staff Offices Supporting DOE operations through policy, administration, and mission services. * Science and Innovation Program Offices Leading scientific research and technology development across priority areas.
* Independent Offices Providing oversight and specialized functions across key areas of the Department. * Energy Program Offices Managing programs that support energy production, efficiency, and delivery. * National Laboratories Advancing research and innovation through DOE’s National Laboratory System.
* Nuclear Security Offices Overseeing national security efforts related to nuclear safety and defense. * Featured Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office * Energy Sources Learn about the resources and technologies used to produce power across the United States. * Energy Usage Explore how energy is consumed in homes, businesses, transportation, and industry.
* Policy Understand the laws, regulations, and strategies that guide energy decisions and national priorities. * Science & Innovation See how research, discovery, and new technologies are shaping the future of energy. * Economy Discover how energy affects jobs, markets, investment, and economic growth.
* National Security & Safety Learn how energy systems support resilience, infrastructure protection, and public safety. * News & EventsView all News & Events * Fact Sheets FACT SHEET: The Golden Era of American Nuclear Energy Has Arrived Fact Sheet: Operational Closure of Radioactive Liquid Waste Tanks Fact Sheet: Liquid Waste Tank Farms View all Fact Sheets * Mission Supporting USA energy, science, and security priorities.
* Contact Us Access general information and ways to connect with the Department of Energy. * Internships & Fellowships * Apprenticeships & Workforce Development 4. Artificial Intelligence 5.
Artificial Intelligence # Artificial Intelligence The Genesis Mission is a defining moment in American history, marshalling the full resources of our nation to secure technological leadership in the age of artificial intelligence.
This initiative combines DOE's and the National Labs' world-class supercomputing power, unique scientific data, and AI capabilities into a single integrated system designed to dramatically accelerate scientific discovery.
As strategic competitors race to dominate AI, the Genesis Mission ensures the United States will not only keep pace but will lead, accelerating breakthroughs in energy independence, national security, and critical technologies that will shape the future for generations to come. Learn more at the Genesis Mission website. ## What is Artificial Intelligence?
(AI) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad technology area that includes machine-based systems that can make predictions, recommendations, or decisions. These systems are trained to identify patterns in data, and they can then generalize to answer new questions, generate text or other media, or make autonomous decisions.
## How DOE is Advancing AI Innovation **Laying the foundations for AI** Since the 1960s, DOE has sponsored basic research in applied mathematics and computer science that laid the foundations for AI. Over the decades, DOE’s multi-pronged strategy of investments in hardware design, basic research for innovative AI techniques, and application development has enabled today's AI revolution.
DOE has a storied track record of working with industry on innovative hardware designs for advanced computing resources, including AI. Through the Exascale Computing Project, DOE, alongside its industry partners, successfully achieved a 200x improvement in energy efficiency for high-performance computing.
Critical components of today’s Graphic Processing Units – specialized chips that are used in training the AI models we rely on today – were initially developed via DOE’s early investments in high-performance computing.
**Powering AI with scientific data** Reliant AI also requires high-quality data and DOE’s experimental user facilities generate unparalleled scientific data sets – including data for high energy, nuclear and plasma physics, characterization of materials with X-rays and neutrons, and genomic analysis for biotechnology.
To maximize this data's impact, DOE enhances the reliability, robustness, and rigor of AI algorithms and methods to support their use in scientific research.
**Accelerating discovery with AI** Going forward, DOE will build an integrated AI platform to combine the Department's world-class computing, unique scientific datasets, experimental facilities, and quantum computing to drastically reduce the time-to-solution for today's most challenging scientific and national-security problems.
In short, DOE will shrink discovery cycles from years to months and validate the most promising AI technologies. ## How AI Innovation Advances DOE's Mission DOE’s investments in AI span the entire department, from scientific discovery to energy applications to national security.
We have been applying AI to DOE’s mission areas for decades, with individual research programs focusing on enhancing the analysis of data across disciplines to maximize its scientific impact. ## American Infrastructure Powering AI AI applications require robust energy infrastructure to drive growth and innovation.
Data centers are projected to consume up to 9% of total U.S. electricity demand by 2030, with the largest growth dedicated to developing AI capabilities and scaling AI applications to millions of consumers.
**Meeting the energy demands of data centers** DOE possesses the technical resources to support the data center developers, utilities, state and local officials, and communities, and the Department is committed to collaborating with stakeholders to overcome the challenges of growing demand.
**Public-private partnerships for American competitiveness** We announced plans to partner with private-sector developers to develop cutting-edge AI data centers and energy-generation projects on DOE lands and launched the Speed to Power Initiative to accelerate the speed of large-scale grid infrastructure project development for both transmission and generation.
These initiatives help ensure the United States has the power needed to win the global AI race while continuing to meet growing demand for affordable, reliable, and secure energy.
**Improving AI applications** DOE is also committed to improving the efficiency of AI applications, building on a long history of supercomputer deployment, with multiple research efforts focused on improving the performance of individual chips, algorithms for software, computer systems, and data centers. And AI can also be part of the solution.
DOE released the PermitAI tool to improve the speed and quality of federal environmental permitting and we continue to explore ways that AI tools can deploy new energy generation, secure the power grid, and reduce the costs of next-generation energy technologies _. _ While AI brings enormous potential to improve American innovation and prosperity, we also recognize the risks inherent in such technology.
AI systems may generate incorrect, unverifiable, and potentially harmful outputs, and any use of AI technology must properly understand and mitigate those risks. * AI and National Security **DOE's role in advancing AI security and reliability** DOE is helping advance the science of AI risk and build a secure and reliable AI ecosystem.
* **Adversarial testing:**We are leading the way by developing adversarial testing of AI models and systems, particularly against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats, as well as against cyber threats to the power grid. * **AI testbeds:**We are building AI testbeds to provide developers safe and secure ways to test new AI tools, hardware, and algorithms.
* **Privacy-enhancing technologies:**We are partnering with academic researchers and other federal agencies to develop privacy-enhancing technologies that will allow widespread deployment of AI tools while mathematically protecting the underlying data. * **Model assessment:**We are leading the way with assessments of the scientific capabilities of AI models and understanding model thresholds and performance.
DOE’s work on these key issues is aligned with a national strategy laid out in Executive Orders, Management Memos, and National Security Memoranda. ### AI Governance and Implementation DOE is responsible for implementing relevant White House directives related to AI. This involves aligning DOE's AI research, development, deployment, and governance efforts with the broader AI strategy and guidance.
DOE actively participates in interagency AI initiatives, contributing its expertise in energy, science, and national security to inform government-wide AI policies and initiatives. This collaborative approach ensures that AI advancements are strategically leveraged across various sectors while addressing potential risks.
* DOE AI Strategy 2025 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy") * DOE AI Compliance Plan 2025 * DOE Generative AI Policy * Annual AI Use Case Inventory * Generative AI Reference Guide * Enterprise Data Strategy * Global AI Research Agenda * Artificial Intelligence * Artificial Intelligence DOE is Advancing the AI Innovation Ecosystem * Artificial Intelligence DOE Announces New Actions to Enhance America’s Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence * Artificial Intelligence DOE Announces New Actions to Enhance America’s Global Leadership in Artificial Intelligence * Artificial Intelligence U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative – Apply Now!
* Artificial Intelligence U.S. Department of Energy Announces More Than $800 Million in Partner Commitments to the Genesis Mission * Artificial Intelligence Secretary of Energy Chris Wright Announces First Genesis Mission Projects Selected to Accelerate AI-Driven Scientific Discovery * Artificial Intelligence DOE and DOL Partner to Advance Mining Innovation and Safety * AI for Energy April 29, 2024 * DOE Releases New Report Evaluating Increase in Electricity Demand from Data Centers December 20, 2024 * Artificial Intelligence DOE Delivers Initial Risk Assessment on Artificial Intelligence for Critical Energy Infrastructure * Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear Deterrence Strategy 2023 * AI for Science Report 2020 April 14, 2025 * AI for Energy Report 2024 April 14, 2025 * AI for Science, Energy, and Security Report 2023 April 14, 2025 AI is a crosscutting technology that touches every part of DOE’s mission.
The Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies coordinates AI activities across DOE and the national laboratories.
* Office of Critical and Emerging Technologies April 1, 2026 * Office of Policy March 18, 2026 * Hydrocarbons and Geothermal Energy Office July 21, 2026 * Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response July 29, 2026 * Office of the Under Secretary for Science July 22, 2026 * Office of the Chief Information Officer March 3, 2026 * Office of Science August 17, 2026 * Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation July 30, 2026 * Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence June 3, 2026 * Office of Environmental Management July 29, 2026 Committed to Restoring America’s Energy Dominance.
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NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program is a grant from NVIDIA providing up to $60,000 per award to PhD students conducting research that advances accelerated computing and its applications. Now in its 25th year, the program invites nominations from doctoral students pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and related fields. Recipients receive not only research funding but also access to NVIDIA technology, products, and engineering expertise, along with a mandatory in-person summer internship. Students are nominated by their faculty advisors and selected based on academic achievement and research area alignment.
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