Comment by Antonio Krüger

But a hub usually implies a place. A place to go. The place to be, to discuss, to invent. We therefore must join the minds and the talents in a real hub, a European Lighthouse for AI. Not only as a symbol for European excellence and ambition across all of AI but also as a central landmark location for the European AI community to meet and exchange, plan and coordinate, as well as work and evaluate, targeted as a center for all of Europe (and beyond) with a clear human-centered focus! Just as in CERN, the scientific activities will not replace the work done in all the other excellent AI research centers and organizations across Europe but will be driven by them and will open up completely new opportunities to jointly tackle some of the most important and largest problems in AI. As a core element of the center overall and a starting point, the European Lighthouse for AI will focus on Trusted-AI and all its related fields, enabling AI systems that for the first time can be trusted and formally certified by providing solid guarantees about their behavior. This „CERN for AI“ should have world-class compute facilities for AI and related computing and storage requirements, well connected to the European science grid at large, as well as major nearby HPC centers. It will provide functional spaces for the European AI community from academia to industry to come together for everything from single-day events to month-long collaborative working sessions, including spaces for large conferences, meetings, experiments, offices, accommodation, food, sports, and leisure. It will drive a strong testing and demonstration program and include suitable large-scale test labs and facilities for allowing hands-on practical testing, evaluation, and demonstration of AI systems.