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EU group of chief scientific advisors
At the time, the Advisors recommended that this should be a distributed institution, not a single centralised organisation.
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The CERN for AI should have a central hub in one location
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AI Verified The quote clearly opposes a single-location central hub, saying the institution should be "distributed" and "not a single centralised organisation," which directly implies opposition to the statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago
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AI Verified The quote says it should be "a distributed institution, not a single centralised organisation," which clearly opposes having one central hub in one location. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 17d ago

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AI Verified The exact sentence appears verbatim in SAM’s official news post, “‘CERN for AI’: the devil is in the detail, say science advisors,” dated 18 July 2024: “At the time, the Advisors recommended that this should be a distributed institution, not a single centralised organisation.” Because the text is published on SAM’s official website, attributing it to the Scientific Advice Mechanism is supported. ([scientificadvice.eu](https://scientificadvice.eu/news/cern-for-ai-the-devil-is-in-the-detail-say-science-advisors/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. The quote is from the EU Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM) page "CERN for AI: the devil is in the detail, say science advisors". Multiple corroborating sources confirm SAM/the EU Chief Scientific Advisors recommended a "European Distributed Institute for AI in Science" (EDIRAS), explicitly arguing it should be a distributed institution rather than a single centralised organisation. The "against" vote on "Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN" is defensible: while SAM supports the general concept of a major AI research institute, they explicitly reject the centralised CERN-like model in favor of a distributed one — the statement specifies "similar to CERN" which implies centralisation. Source URL returned 403; verification relies on multiple corroborating search results including sciencebusiness.net and scientificadvice.eu summaries. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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