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Demis Hassabis

Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

Then what I’d like to see eventually is an equivalent of a Cern for AI safety that does research into that – but internationally.

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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN

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AI Verified Verified relevant. Hassabis explicitly says he wants an international equivalent of CERN for AI safety, directly supporting a global AI institute similar to CERN. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 3mo ago

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Restrict the CERN for AI initiative to EU member states

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AI Verified The quote indicates the author wants a CERN-like AI effort to be 'internationally,' which clearly implies opposition to limiting such an initiative to EU member states only. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The international framing supports the recorded against answer. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 2mo ago

AI Verified The quote says the initiative should be "internationally," which clearly opposes restricting it to EU member states. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The Guardian article dated 2023-10-24 attributes the exact wording to Demis Hassabis: “Then what I’d like to see eventually is an equivalent of a Cern for AI safety that does research into that – but internationally.” The source URL contains the quote verbatim. ([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/24/ai-risk-climate-crisis-google-deepmind-chief-demis-hassabis-regulation)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 · 2mo ago

Disputed The Guardian article from October 24, 2023 does attribute this statement to Demis Hassabis, but the wording in the source is slightly different: it begins “Then what I’d like to see eventually...” and writes “Cern,” not “CERN.” Because the submitted version drops the opening word and changes the capitalization, I can confirm the idea and attribution, but not the quote as verbatim. ([theguardian.com](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/24/ai-risk-climate-crisis-google-deepmind-chief-demis-hassabis-regulation)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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