Quote · Moonshots with Peter Diamandis
Michael Kratsios on the New Golden Age of American Science | EP #276
Where this was said
National Lab Data: 70 Years of Science That's Never Been Fed to an AI
At 1:09:28 · chapter starts 1:07:30
One of the most concrete and actionable insights in the conversation: the US national labs — DOE, NIH, and others — have accumulated 70 years of scientific data across every domain, from nuclear physics to biomedical research, that has never been made AI-ready or incorporated into any model. [1] — Michael Kratsios "US national labs hold 70 years of scientific data across every domain that has never been made AI-ready. Getting that data into models is t…" 1:07:50 Kratsios frames this as an enormous untapped accelerant for the Genesis Mission. His analogy is clarifying: when the federal government made NOAA weather data freely available, it became the foundation for every commercial weather application ever built. The same cascade could happen with national lab data — except instead of weather apps, the downstream products would be drug candidates, materials discoveries, and physics breakthroughs. He also addresses a question Peter raises about who captures the value from AI-driven discoveries built on public data: those are public goods, and the value should flow back to the American people who funded the research in the first place.
US national labs hold 70 years of scientific data across every domain that has never been made AI-ready. Getting that data into models is the core insight behind the Genesis Mission. Kratsios draws the analogy to NOAA weather data — once made freely available, it became the foundation for every weather app in existence.
