Darío Gil

Darío Gil is Under Secretary for Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he advises on science and technology and oversees major basic-research programs across the national laboratories. He was previously IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research, with public work spanning artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced computing, and AI-enabled scientific discovery.

AI Is Making Scientific Throughput the New National Advantage

Dario Gil, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Under Secretary for Science, used his AI+Science keynote to argue that AI is shifting scientific advantage from access to instruments and computing toward the throughput of integrated discovery systems. He presented DOE’s Genesis initiative as the national-scale architecture for that shift, linking data, AI models, high-performance computing, experimental facilities, and industry partners into closed-loop workflows. Gil’s case was that the test is not more papers, but whether faster scientific cycles can produce measurable gains in productivity, security, and industrial capability.

Stanford HAIMay 15, 202613 min read