The U.S. government is making a billion-dollar bet that AI can do what decades of “moonshots” have failed to: make cancer more manageable and much more survivable.

In a newly announced partnership with Advanced Micro Devices , the Department of Energy (DOE) will build two of the world’s most advanced AI supercomputers—Lux and Discovery—to accelerate research across fusion energy, national defense, and cancer treatment, according to a Reuters report.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Reuters the machines could, in “the next five or eight years,” help turn “most cancers, many of which today are ultimate death sentences, into manageable conditions.”

For scientists like Trey Ideker, who leads a precision-oncology program at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health at the

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