WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order to use artificial intelligence, or AI, to help fight pediatric cancer.
With children surrounding Trump’s desk in the Oval Office, the president inked the order on Tuesday.
You’re all going to be better very soon,” Trump told the children.
We’re going to defeat childhood cancer once and for all,” he added.
Trump said the order will “massively accelerate” pediatric cancer research and “harness the extraordinary potential” of artificial intelligence to fight “this terrible disease.”
“We’re going to hook up the artificial intelligence with all of the other things that we have at hand and we’re going to … get answers,” he said. “These young children, who are just really — some are better, others getting better — you’re all gonna be getting better very soon.”
Upon signing the order, the Trump Administration invested $50 Million for pediatric cancer research, as well as $50 million to the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, which Trump launched in 2019.
“Today, in line with recommendations made by [Heath and Human Services] Secretary [Robert F.] Kennedy and the MAHA Commission, we’re doubling that investment by adding another $50 million to the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative. We’re doing that immediately and we have a lot of money coming in with the tariffs. We’ve never had money like this coming in. We’re a rich country again. We were a dead country one year ago and now we’re the richest. We’re hot,” Trump said.
“We’re a hot country, so it’s an honor to do that in honor of all of you,” he told the children”