Comment by Miles Brundage

AI policy researcher; founder of AVERI (AI Verification Initiative); former OpenAI Head of Policy Research
But the main regret I have with this talk is that I wish I had prepared a more for the section on a “CERN for AI.” The idea behind such a project is to pool many countries’ and companies’ resources into a single (possibly physically decentralized) civilian AI development effort, with the purpose of ensuring that this technology is designed securely, safely, and in the global interest. In this post, I will go into more detail on why I’m excited about the general idea of a CERN for AI, and I’ll describe one specific version of it that appeals to me. I’m not totally sure that this is the right overall plan for frontier AI governance, but I think it deserves serious consideration. AI Verified source (2024)
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AI Verified Verified. blog.biocomm.ai URL returned 403 but web search results confirm: (1) Miles Brundage's Substack post "My recent lecture at Berkeley and a vision for a 'CERN for AI'" exists at the canonical milesbrundage.substack.com URL, mirrored on blog.biocomm.ai with date 2024-12-13 (year 2024 correct); (2) the exact quoted sentence appears verbatim in search-result excerpts — "to pool many countries' and companies' resources into a single (possibly physically decentralized) civilian AI development effort, with the purpose of ensuring that this technology is designed securely, safely, and in the global interest"; (3) Miles Brundage is former OpenAI Head of Policy Research and founder of AVERI (matches biography). Vote "for" on "Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN" perfectly aligns with the post's explicit enthusiasm for the CERN-for-AI concept ("why I'm excited about the general idea of a CERN for AI"). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2d ago
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