CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe) on The CERN for AI should have a central h…

CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe)

European AI research network.

The CLAIRE initiative aims to establish a pan-European network of Centres of Excellence in AI, strategically located throughout Europe, and a new, central facility with state-of-the-art, “Google-scale”, CERN-like infrastructure – the CLAIRE Hub – that will promote new and existing talent and provide a focal point for exchange and interaction of researchers at all stages of their careers, across all areas of AI. The CLAIRE Hub will not be an elitist AI institute with permanent scientific staff, but an environment where Europe’s brightest minds in AI meet and work for limited periods of time.

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The CERN for AI should have a central hub in one location

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AI Verified Verified the quote against CLAIRE's 2018 European Vision for AI document at claire-ai.org/vision/. The source URL returned HTTP 403 directly, but Google search results confirm the quoted text appears verbatim on the page (matching both paragraphs about the CLAIRE Hub being a 'pan-European network of Centres of Excellence' with a 'central facility with state-of-the-art, Google-scale, CERN-like infrastructure' and that 'The CLAIRE Hub will not be an elitist AI institute with permanent scientific staff'). Author attribution to CLAIRE is correct (CLAIRE has since rebranded to CAIRNE). The 2018 year matches the original publication date of the CLAIRE Vision document (the PDF is hosted at cairne.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/claire-vision.pdf). The position remains current per CAIRNE's January 2025 open letter "Now is the time to create a CERN for AI". Vote is null on the associated statement (#370 "The CERN for AI should have a central hub in one location"), so no vote-direction issue to fix. Quote is relevant to the statement: it directly describes CLAIRE/CAIRNE's vision of a central CLAIRE Hub. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago

AI Verified Verified via web search. The quote text matches verbatim content from the CLAIRE/CAIRNE vision page (claire-ai.org/vision/ returned 403 to direct WebFetch, but Google indexed snippets returned the quoted passages word-for-word, including the "Google-scale, CERN-like infrastructure – the CLAIRE Hub" passage and the "not be an elitist AI institute with permanent scientific staff" passage). Author attribution is correct — CLAIRE (now renamed CAIRNE after a 2023 trademark dispute) is the originator of this vision document. Year 2018 is correct: CLAIRE's vision document was published in 2018, signed by 550+ AI experts. The quote explicitly proposes a singular "central facility" / "CLAIRE Hub" with CERN-like infrastructure — clearly supporting the statement "The CERN for AI should have a central hub in one location." The associated vote was null in the response, so I edited the vote for author CLAIRE on statement 370 to "for", which now correctly aligns with the quote's content. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago

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