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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.
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Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN
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Grant member states majority governance control in the CERN for AI
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Restrict the CERN for AI initiative to EU member states
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Disputed Disputed. On the supplied Science|Business page, the article is dated 2026-01-29 and the byline is “Morten Irgens and Holger Hoos,” so this is not a single-author quote. The page does contain both passages, but not as one verbatim quote: the sentence about “when 12 European nations established CERN ... giving it autonomy, longevity and trust” appears near the start of the article, while “Instead, to effectively address the pressing issue of technological sovereignty in AI ... creating a CERN for AI worthy of the name” appears near the end. The stored quote reverses their order and therefore is materially altered rather than a faithful omitted-text quote. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2d ago
Disputed The source URL is a real Science|Business article dated 29 Jan 2026, but it is co-authored by "Morten Irgens and Holger Hoos," not Morten Irgens alone. It contains the first sentence essentially verbatim at the end of the article, but the second quoted sentence is not exact: the article says, "It also recognises that when 12 European nations established CERN, officially the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in 1954, they set it up for success, giving it autonomy, longevity and trust." The submitted version omits words from inside that sentence without marking them with [...], so the quotation is not strictly verbatim. ([sciencebusiness.net](https://sciencebusiness.net/viewpoint/ai/viewpoint-eus-cern-ai-nothing-sort)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
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 · 20d ago
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