Comment by Eric Schmidt

I spent a lot of years hoping that the collaboration would occur, and there are many people in our industry who think that the arrival and development of this new intelligence is so important, it should be done in a multinational way. It should be done in the equivalent of CERN, which is the great physics laboratory, which is global in Switzerland. The political tensions and the stress over values is so great. There’s just no scenario. There’s just — I want to say it again, there’s just no scenario where you can do that.
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AI Verified The quote directly discusses the idea of developing AI through a multinational institution 'in the equivalent of CERN' and clearly states the speaker’s view that, despite the appeal, current political tensions mean 'there’s just no scenario where you can do that.' This is explicitly about the full proposal of creating a global AI institute similar to CERN. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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AI Unverifiable The quote is mixed: he says he had been "hoping that the collaboration would occur" and describes the CERN-style model as something that "should be done," but his explicit conclusion is about feasibility — "there’s just no scenario where you can do that." That does not unambiguously show support or opposition to the idea itself. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago

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AI Verified Verified: the CNN transcript for "Amanpour" aired on December 13, 2024 attributes this exact passage to ERIC SCHMIDT during his interview with Walter Isaacson; the quoted wording appears verbatim at lines 661–668 of the source transcript. ([transcripts.cnn.com](https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/ampr/date/2024-12-13/segment/01)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
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