Comment by Morten Irgens

AI researcher; co-founder and Vice-Chair of CAIRNE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe); co-founder of NORA and Adra
To effectively address the pressing issue of technological sovereignty in AI, a coalition of EU member states and like-minded countries should commit themselves to creating a CERN for AI worthy of the name. [...] When 12 European nations established CERN in 1954, they set it up for success, giving it autonomy, longevity and trust. AI Unverifiable source (2026)
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AI Unverifiable Source URL on sciencebusiness.net returns HTTP 403 to WebFetch. Web search confirms Morten Irgens is the author of the Science|Business viewpoint piece on EU's "CERN for AI" and the exact phrase about CERN's 1954 founding with "autonomy, longevity and trust" appears in his writing. Vote "for" on "Grant member states majority governance control in the CERN for AI" aligns with Irgens advocating that a "coalition of EU member states and like-minded countries" should lead the CERN for AI. Author attribution and substance check out, but marking ai_unverifiable since the source URL itself cannot be retrieved directly. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 3h ago
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