Comment by Cygnux Labs

Physicists faced a version of this problem in the 1950s. No single lab could afford the machine they needed, so they pooled resources and built one together, with shared data and shared credit. This piece sketches what the same move could look like for advanced AI: a public institution at the frontier, built to make powerful systems trustworthy and to let others check that they are. [...] The institution we have in mind is a hybrid: CERN’s serious shared infrastructure and long horizon, with ARPA’s speed and talent-first culture. [...] A mission statement is the one thing that survives leadership turnover. [...] A version for this era could read: “To pioneer the science of trustworthy, controllable and increasingly general AI, up to and beyond human-level capability, and to turn that science into applications that benefit society.”