The U.S. and 15 other nations are set to endorse a “Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science” that champions artificial intelligence as a catalyst for faster discovery, according to a statement slated for release at Japan’s Science and Technology in Society Forum. The document, shaped by White House science-policy chief Michael Kratsios, urges integrating AI—branded “super intelligence” under a recent Trump executive order—into research and highlights the growing field of metascience to evaluate how science is funded and conducted.
Officials argue AI-enabled, robot-run labs can design experiments and analyze data at superhuman speeds, potentially democratizing research. Companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI are already linking advanced models to biomedical labs. The statement also stresses public trust and diversified funding mechanisms. That position collides with the administration’s proposed budget cuts that would halve National Science Foundation funding, drawing criticism from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which says federal actions have eroded trust and undermined research.
The initiative comes amid a broader U.S. push to reshape research incentives and follows a White House meeting with technology executives that produced a voluntary “Accord on Super Intelligence” for corporate safety practices. Separately, the NSF plans an Office of Metascience to test which funding approaches yield the strongest scientific results. The forum’s agenda includes AI’s impact on education and personalized medicine, underscoring the technology’s expanding role—and the policy frictions it creates—in global science.
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