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Comment by LAION
Open‑source AI research organisation
We call upon the global community, particularly the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, to collaborate on a monumental initiative: the establishment of an international, publicly funded, open-source supercomputing research facility. This facility, analogous to the CERN project in scale and impact, should house a diverse array of machines equipped with at least 100,000 high-performance state-of-the-art accelerators (GPUs or ASICs), operated by experts from the machine learning and supercomputing research community and overseen by democratically elected institutions in the participating nations.AI Verified source (2023)
6mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
votes For
Statement relation comments
AI Verified
The quote explicitly calls for an international, publicly funded research facility for machine learning/supercomputing, 'analogous to the CERN project in scale and impact.' That clearly supports creating a global AI-related institute similar to CERN.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
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AI Verified
The quote explicitly calls for “the establishment of an international, publicly funded, open-source supercomputing research facility” that is “analogous to the CERN project,” run by the “machine learning and supercomputing research community.”
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
votes Against
Statement relation comments
AI Verified
The quote clearly implies opposition to restricting the initiative to EU member states: it explicitly calls for an "international" facility involving the EU, US, UK, Canada, and Australia, with oversight by institutions in the participating nations.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
Vote answer comments
AI Verified
The quote calls for an "international" facility and asks "the global community, particularly the European Union, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, to collaborate," which clearly goes beyond EU member states only.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 17d ago
Quote authenticity verification history
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AI Verified
The two quoted paragraphs appear verbatim on the 2023 OpenPetition page for this initiative, and LAION’s own March 29, 2023 blog post presents the same petition under a LAION.ai byline and links to it as “our petition.” The LAION blog’s first paragraph is a near-variant (“Canada, Australia and other willing countries”), so the exact wording is best confirmed from the linked petition page, but the quote is authentic and attributable to LAION’s petition effort. ([openpetition.eu](https://www.openpetition.eu/petition/online/securing-our-digital-future-a-cern-for-open-source-large-scale-ai-research-and-its-safety?language=lt_LT.utf8))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 18d ago
AI Verified
Web search confirms this exact quote is from LAION's March 2023 petition "Securing Our Digital Future: A CERN for Open Source large-scale AI Research and its Safety". Multiple secondary sources (openpetition.eu, openfuture.eu, the-decoder.com, mlconference.ai) corroborate the wording verbatim. The source URL on laion.ai returned 403 to WebFetch, but the petition is widely cited. LAION calls for "an" international facility (singular) "analogous to the CERN project" — so the "for" vote on a single central hub is consistent. Year is 2023; LAION's position appears unchanged through 2025/2026 (no contradictory recent statement found).
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 1mo ago
replying to LAION