Create a global institute for AI, similar to CERN

We need an international forum for discussion that establishes globally accepted standards for testing, provides expert and impartial analysis of capabilities and risks, and serves as a venue for cooperation among nations.

A CERN for AI will [...] drive innovation, economic growth, and ethical AI development.

I would like to see a CERN for AI [...] where all the top scientists come together and see whether they can make a super intelligence. And, if they can, they contain it into a system where it can't just go out and persuade people to let it run the wo...

We recognise that advanced technologies inevitably raise national security concerns, however it is the responsibility of academies and governments to consider the interests of global humanity and the planet. Cooperation for peace and global security ...

The idea of just creating a bunch of big companies with venture capital behind them and they fight it out isn’t the only paradigm, [...] incent researchers to work together and you get quite naturally this idea of the CERN for AI, [...] Not because y...

Very large data and computing infrastructure, to train very large models. We want to replicate the success story of the CERN laboratory in Geneva. CERN hosts the largest particle accelerator in the world. And it allows the best and the brightest mind...

We will refer to such a lab as the Global Public Benefit AI Lab (or "Lab"). The Lab will be an open, public-private, democratically-governed consortium, aimed at achieving and sustaining a solid global leadership or co-leadership in human-controllab...

Panelists emphasized that talent isn’t solely drawn by salaries. A CERN for AI needs a clear mission for the public good. Examples like India’s Aadhaar system or the UK’s AI Security Institute show that visionary public projects can rally top-tier te...

Still, that doesn’t mean the vision for a CERN-like body for AI should fade.

Yeah, sure. I think what we all saw with the use case over there is what is possible when people work together and when they are convened on purpose, right? And with a specific purpose in mind. It’s so important. And to formalize that around these re...

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...

A "distributed-CERN" reimagined for AI, networked across diverse States and regions, could expand opportunities for greater access to AI tools and expertise.

It can be conceived as a sort of "global Airbus for AI", or a much stronger and extensive global "CERN for AI". [...] This opportunity is open to all states and firms, allowing them to participate on equal footing.

CERN for AI should be understood not just as an ambitious tech project, but a crucial step to secure Europe’s economic future, safeguard its security and geopolitical standing, and steer the trajectory of AI development towards more trustworthy and e...

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...

A Global AI Lab to achieve global supremacy in safe and controllable AI. [...] An "IAEA for AI" to enforce a global ban on dangerous AI development outside this lab.

There is a need to develop alternatives that are publicly funded, driven by a public-interest mission, and overseen by democratically elected institutions. [...] By proposing a mission to build a “CERN for AI”, the LAION researchers argue that a st...

A thought experiment for regulating AI in two distinct regimes is what I call The Island. In this scenario, experts trying to build God-like AGI systems do so in a highly secure facility: an air-gapped enclosure with the best security humans can buil...

fortytwo could be the cornerstone for a groundbreaking ‘CERN for AI’ initiative.

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 supercomp...

Ideally this would stay in the hands of neutral international organizations (think of a combination of IAEA and CERN for AI) that develop safe and beneficial AI [...] safe superhuman AI

A CERN for AI would essentially have three functions. It would serve as a meeting place, a platform for experts to interact and exchange ideas. Second, it would offer a research environment that the various existing research centers, even the large o...

Yeah, I think we need multiple features and maybe not in the same place. I think a CERN is definitely something we need. I mean, I think we need to ensure that more of the development happens in a way that there is oversight over it and governments p...

The key is using data and AI, governed in a fair and democratic way, and deployed for democratic deliberation, not to increased clicks, polarising public opinions and monetizing users’ data. This is the opposite of the public interest. Europe needs ...

A CERN for AI would essentially have three functions. It would serve as a meeting place, a platform for experts to interact and exchange ideas. Second, it would offer a research environment that the various existing research centers, even the large o...

I believe we should commit to a CERN for AI, and locate it in the most competitive AI region of Europe. [...] We have a big problem when it comes to competitiveness. We’re lagging behind. The US invests €25 billion per year in AI, China €10 billion, ...

This would be the focus of a critical mass that offers the best research facilities – a CERN for AI.

While the modalities of funding and mandate for this #AIforAll should be the subject of further deliberations, the proposed centre should ideally be funded by a mix of government funding and contributions from large companies pursuing AI (GAFAM, BATX...

There’s a good argument that there should be a Cern for AI where governments collaborate to develop AI openly and robustly so we understand and trust the technology we are developing. That’s not going to happen if it’s developed behind closed doors. ...

The European Union has announced investments in artificial intelligence (AI) worth many billions of euros with the ambition of creating a “CERN for AI”. But the inclusion of Switzerland, home to the world-renowned particle physics laboratory, may be ...

Still, the symbolic and structural value of a CERN-like institution could help build long-term trust and capacity in global AI governance.

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....

Some advocates, such as computer scientist Gary Marcus, also argue that the CERN model could help advance AI safety research beyond the capacity of any one firm or nation. The new institution could bring together top talent under a mission grounded i...

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....

A CERN for AI undoubtedly represents one credible possible model to advance targeted elements of AI safety research and provide public alternatives to private sector dominance.

If we can find that, then we can solve the problems of A.I. and other things. But it's through building trust, searching for truth, and making sure that what we discover is for the service of us. Very much like the CERN model that you talked about --...

I have talked about having something like a CERN [European Organization for Nuclear Research] for AI, which might focus on AI safety. In some industries, we know how to make reliable [products], usually only in narrow domains. One example is bridges:...

MAGIC (the Multilateral AGI Consortium) would be the world’s only advanced and secure AI facility...

In questi mesi di allarmi sull'impatto dell'umanità artificiale non sarebbe sbagliato immaginare un Cern dell'Ai, fondato da Paesi europei e aperto a tutti.

Given the constraints on the current research paradigm, scientists and policy advocates are increasingly coming to the conclusion that a more collaborative and international endeavor is necessary to truly harness the power of AI and ensure it is used...

The proposed umbrella organization along the lines of CERN will propel "moonshot research projects". The "CERN for AI" model is well-suited to India’s approach.

The European Commission has agreed Europe needs such a body for AI, and claims to have delivered it in recent announcements. But in reality, it has not established anything resembling a CERN for AI.

I tentatively think that an international AGI project is feasible and desirable. [...] My favourite version of an international AGI project is loosely modelled on Intelsat, an international project that developed the first global satellite communicat...

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...

Als zentrales KI-Forschungszentrum müsse das „CERN für KI“ mit modernster Recheninfrastruktur, hoch qualifiziertem Personal und einer attraktiven Forschungsumgebung ausgestattet werden.

We need to ensure that we do not let AI be controlled by private actors. [...] This idea of this CERN for AI… is an idea I think we should implement very quickly. Now is not the time to cut off research on research and data — it is the time to creat...

CERN for AI’s founding members should comprise a select set of trusted non-EU partners, particularly EEA countries and strategic Horizon Europe collaborators.

I’d love for there to be an International CERN, basically, for AI, where you get the top researchers in the world and you go: Look, let’s focus on the final few years of this project […] and really get it right.

Since 2018, the idea of a “CERN for AI” has been one of the signature elements of the CLAIRE vision for European excellence in AI. The time has come for large-scale and effective investment into publicly owned and operated AI infrastructure, along wi...

Well, there are positive signs, for instance, like Henry Kissinger was recently suggested in foreign affairs that the US cooperate with China on this issue now, but before it's too late. So I think some people are recognizing the the importance of tr...

Securing Our Digital Future: Calling for CERN like international organization to transparently coordinate and progress on large-scale AI research and its safety.

An effort such as Sentinel would loosely resemble a version of CERN for AI and would aim to become the “brain” of an international regulator of AI, which would operate similarly to how the International Atomic Energy Agency works to ensure the safe a...

For joint R&D, recommendation R15 of the progress report called for development of “common criteria and governance arrangements for international large-scale AI R&D projects,” with the Human Genome Project (HGP) and the European Organization for Nucl...

With Europe being outspent by Asia and North America when it comes to AI research, the European Commission has warned that the continent “cannot afford to maintain the current fragmented landscape” in which no research centre has “the scale necessary...

But the main regret I have with this talk is that I wish I had prepared a more for the section on a “CERN for AI.” The idea behind such a project is to pool many countries’ and companies’ resources into a single (possibly physically decentralized) ci...

[...] calls for a CERN-like open-source collaboration among the United States and allied countries to establish an international "supercomputing research facility".

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.

I have attached my paper entitled ‘Global AI Governance and the United Nations: The UN Should Update Its Existing Institutional Framework Instead of Creating a Global AI Agency’.

At ELLIS we believe that a strong AI research landscape distributed across various locations in Europe is essential for maintaining Europe’s sovereignty in this competitive field. AI research does not require access to centralized, expensive and uniq...

Currently, so many needs for innovation are put under the label of AI that there will be no way to address them with a single organisation.

I spent a lot of years hoping that the collaboration would occur, and there are many people in our industry who think that the arrival and development of this new intelligence is so important, it should be done in a multinational way. It should be do...

The AI Safety Network stands as a cornerstone of this effort.

Suppose that frontier AI development is centralized to a single project under tight international controls, with all other development banned internationally. By far the likeliest outcome of this is that we all die. A centralized group of internatio...

Suppose that frontier AI development is centralized to a single project under tight international controls, with all other development banned internationally. By far the likeliest outcome of this is that we all die. A centralized group of internation...

I did not sign that letter for four reasons. First, it is useless, because it arrives late. [...] The second reason is that its foundations look more like what I consider science fiction: it relies on a generic description of artificial intelligence ...

Talk of a Cern for AI is just rhetoric — don’t be fooled.