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Expert opinions on Science Funding
Quotes, votes and policy statements on Science Funding from AI researchers, executives and policymakers.
81 sourced quotes · 3 statements · 80% for / 18% against overall
Featuring: Centre for Future Generations Gary Marcus Demis Hassabis Yoshua Bengio Holger Hoos Ursula von der Leyen
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For (13)Morten IrgensAI researcher; co-founder and Vice-Chair of CAIRNE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe); co-founder of NORA and Adravotes For and says:
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 ...
more AI Unverifiable source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (1)Mary-Anne HartleyEPFL physician; ICANN initiativevotes Against and says:Because, you know, those things are, those things, people want those things. People want compute. They want data. And humans are humans and we do compete. And it’s important to convene people so that we dilute that ability of competition, because thi...
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For (41)Demis HassabisNobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMindvotes For and says:
I sometimes talk about setting up an international CERN equivalent for AI where all the best minds in the world would collaborate together and do the final steps in a very rigorous scientific way involving all of society, maybe philosophers and socia...
more AI Verified source (2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (2)Institute for Law & AINon-profit research institute on AI governanceabstains and says:[...] calls for a CERN-like open-source collaboration among the United States and allied countries to establish an international "supercomputing research facility".
AI Verified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (12)Maria Cristina RussoEuropean Commission directorvotes Against and says:Through the different interactions we had with the scientific community, we thought the best way forward is to have networking of what exists in Europe and strengthening of what exists, instead of creating new infrastructures.
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The CERN for AI should be completely non-profit
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For (12)World Economic ForumWorld Economic Forum platformvotes For and says:It’s a CERN or DARPA for AI. Many of the US’s biggest technological innovations in the 20th century came out of the research labs at firms like AT&T, Xerox, and IBM. But those firms still had profits in their sights, not societal goals. DARPA, howeve...
more AI Verified source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)Centre for Future GenerationsEuropean think tank on emerging technologiesvotes Against and says:In our initial report, we estimated that establishing CERN for AI requires €30–35 billion over the first three years—an investment that would yield cascading benefits for Europe’s future. The initiative would be funded primarily through core contribu...
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