Morten Irgens on Restrict the CERN for AI initiative to …

Morten Irgens

AI researcher; co-founder and Vice-Chair of CAIRNE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe); co-founder of NORA and Adra

Instead, to effectively address the pressing issue of technological sovereignty in AI, a coalition of EU member states and like-minded countries should commit themselves to creating a CERN for AI worthy of the name.

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Morten Irgens and Holger Hoos, “Viewpoint: the EU’s ‘CERN for AI’ is nothing of the sort,” Science|Business, January 29, 2026. Irgens argues that a CERN for AI should be created by EU member states together with like-minded countries.

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Restrict the CERN for AI initiative to EU member states

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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN

The European Commission has agreed Europe needs such a body for AI, and claims to have delivered it in recent announcements. But in reality, it has not established anything resembling a CERN for AI.

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