“我们驯服了电，发明了电灯泡，制造了飞机，掌握了原子能，释放了个人电脑的潜力，创建了互联网，开创了超级智能技术，还发明了世界上几乎所有具有开创性且意义重大的事物，”周四，唐纳德·特朗普总统夸耀道。“我们永远会处于领先地位，没有任何人能与我们抗衡。”这番言论出自白宫举办的“科学：新黄金时代”峰会，该峰会是特朗普政府为借助人工智能技术加速美国科学研究与发展而发起的一项倡议。
“We tamed electricity, invented the light bulb, developed the airplane, harnessed the atom, unleashed the power of personal computers, created the Internet, pioneered superintelligence, and invented almost everything else of genius and great importance anywhere in the world,” President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday. “We will always be on top. There is nobody that can compete with us.”The remark came from the White House’s “Science: A New Golden Age” summit, an initiative by the Trump administration to accelerate American scientific research and development with artificial intelligence technology.
特朗普宣布，包括OpenAI、Anthropic、xAI、Palantir以及亚马逊在内的多家企业已承诺向“创世纪计划”投入超过24亿美元。该计划旨在将能源部下属的各实验室与“产业界、学术界及其他各方力量”联合起来，利用人工智能实现能源领域的突破、推动科学发现并保障国家安全。这项计划由特朗普于2025年11月通过行政命令启动，而与此同时，其政府却持续削减对多项重要科学研究的资助——正如我的同事们多次报道的那样，这些研究涉及慢性病防治与气候变化领域。
Trump announced that a group of companies—including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Palantir, and Amazon—have committed over $2.4 billion to the Genesis Mission, which advertises itself as uniting Department of Energy labs with “industry, academia, and more to harness AI for breakthroughs in energy dominance, discovery science, and national security.”The additional investment into the Genesis Mission, which the president launched in a November 2025 executive order, comes as his administration continues to eliminate government funding for critical scientific research, among them, as my colleagues have extensively reported, studies into chronic diseases and climate change.
特朗普还向多家科技企业的领军人物颁发了国家科学奖章，获奖者包括埃隆·马斯克、谷歌联合创始人谢尔盖·布林、英伟达首席执行官黄仁勋以及超微半导体公司首席执行官苏姿丰。微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉与戴尔公司首席执行官迈克尔·戴尔则被授予国家技术与创新奖章。
Trump also awarded several leaders of those tech companies with the National Medal of Science: Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and semiconductor firm Advanced Micro Devices’ CEO Lisa Su. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Dell CEO Michael Dell were given the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
正如CNBC周三所指出的，每一位奖章获得者都曾为特朗普或共和党事业提供过资金支持。马斯克是特朗普2024年总统竞选中最大的金主，捐款近3亿美元。英伟达的黄仁勋捐款协助翻修白宫舞厅，并为特朗普的总统就职典礼捐赠了100万美元。在纳德拉领导下，微软也为就职典礼捐赠了100万美元。戴尔是特朗普的长期捐赠者，为“特朗普账户”提供了62.5亿美元——为2500万名儿童每人提供250美元的种子资金。
As CNBC pointed out on Wednesday, each of the medal recipients has contributed financially to Trump or Republican causes. Musk was Trump’s biggest financial supporter, at nearly $300 million, in his 2024 presidential campaign. Nvidia’s Huang donated to help fund the White House ballroom and gave $1 million for Trump’s presidential inauguration ceremony. Microsoft, under Nadella, also contributed $1 million to the inauguration. Dell is a longtime Trump donor who provided $6.25 billion for “Trump Accounts”—$250 seed contributions for 25 million children.
根据他9月份最新的财务披露，特朗普买卖了英伟达、微软、谷歌母公司Alphabet、特斯拉、超威半导体（AMD）和戴尔的股票。
And according to his most recent financial disclosures from September, Trump bought or sold shares in Nvidia, Microsoft, Google’s parent company Alphabet, Tesla, Advanced Micro Devices, and Dell.
换言之，特朗普正用那些向他献媚的营利性企业取代既定的研究机构。人工智能能否填补国家卫生研究院（NIH）等堡垒般机构所损失的数百万美元联邦科研经费，目前尚不清楚。
Trump, in other words, is replacing established research institutions with the for-profit corporations who have curried favor with him. Whether AI will be able to replace millions of dollars in lost federal research funding at bulwarks like the National Institutes of Health is less clear.