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Comment by Future of Life Institute
Nonprofit on existential risks
Haydn Belfield, a researcher at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, proposes two reinforcing institutions: an International AI Agency (IAIA) and CERN for AI. The IAIA would primarily serve as a monitoring and verification body, enforced by chip import restrictions: only countries that sign a verifiable commitment to certain safe compute practices would be permitted to accumulate large amounts of compute. Meanwhile, a “CERN for AI” is an international scientific cooperative megaproject on AI which would centralise frontier model training runs in one facility. As an example of reinforcement, frontier foundation models would be shared out of the CERN for AI, under the supervision of the IAIA.
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Quote is from the Future of Life Institute grant description page for "IAEA and CERN for AI" funded research by Haydn Belfield (Cambridge CSER/LCFI). Source URL returned 403 but content corroborated by FLI search results and Belfield's academic work (2024-2025). The quote accurately describes Belfield's two-institution proposal: IAIA as monitoring/verification body with chip import restrictions, and CERN for AI as a megaproject centralising frontier model training runs in one facility. Vote "for" the statement on having a central hub in one location aligns with the explicit statement that CERN for AI "would centralise frontier model training runs in one facility."
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Hector Perez Arenas
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