The CERN for AI should have a central hub in one location

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  Ian Hogarth

  UK AI Safety Institute chair

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  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... more Unverified source (2024)

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  Fredrik Heintz

  Professor of computer science

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  This would be the focus of a critical mass that offers the best research facilities – a CERN for AI. Unverified source (2020)

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  Kristian Kersting

  Computer scientist; Co-Director hessian.AI

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  fortytwo could be the cornerstone for a groundbreaking ‘CERN for AI’ initiative. Unverified source (2023)

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  The Adaptive Mind

  German AI research center

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  Kersting argues that Europe urgently needs a central institution to coordinate and advance the development of trustworthy, European-made AI technologies. Unverified source

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  Technische Universität Darmstadt

  German public research university

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  Als zentrales KI-Forschungszentrum müsse das „CERN für KI“ mit modernster Recheninfrastruktur [...] ausgestattet werden. Unverified source (2025)

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  LAION

  Open‑source AI research organisation

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  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... more Unverified source (2023)

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  Andrea Miotti

  Founder and CEO of ControlAI

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  MAGIC (the Multilateral AGI Consortium) would be the world’s only advanced and secure AI facility... Unverified source (2023)

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  Centre for Future Generations

  European think tank on emerging technologies

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  Create a single, dedicated talent hub, accompanied by 1-5 separate compute hubs; Unverified source (2024)

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  CAIRNE

  Pan-European AI research confederation

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  Artificial Intelligence is transforming our world, and Europe must take bold steps to ensure its leadership in this critical field. CAIRNE envisions a “CERN for AI”—a pan-European initiative that will create a distributed network of AI research cente... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Antonio Krüger

  German AI research institute leader

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  But a hub usually implies a place. A place to go. The place to be, to discuss, to invent. We therefore must join the minds and the talents in a real hub, a European Lighthouse for AI. Not only as a symbol for European excellence and ambition across a... more Unverified source (2021)

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  Future of Life Institute

  Nonprofit on existential risks

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  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.... more Unverified source (2024)

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  CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe)

  European AI research network.

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  CAIRNE envisions a “CERN for AI”—a pan-European initiative that will create a distributed network of AI research centers, with a central hub serving as a focal point for collaboration, innovation, and ethical AI development. This initiative will driv... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Kevin Kohler

  Researcher, Simon Institute

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  A CERN for AI needs strong talent clustering. Top researchers want to work with other top researchers. Unlike the talent concentration in Silicon Valley, European AI talent is more fragmented across hubs like Zurich, Paris, Berlin, and Barcelona. Sp... more Unverified source (2025)

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  German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

  German AI research center

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  The initiative, which was founded in June 2018, advocates an "AI made in Europe" that takes fundamental European values into account. As a European response to the global AI competition, it brings together stakeholders from research, industry, politi... more Unverified source (2019)

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  European Commission

  EU's executive body

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  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... more Unverified source (2020)

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  Axel Voss

  German MEP; EU digital policy advocate

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  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. Unverified source (2025)

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  Holger Hoos

  Machine learning professor; CAIRNE co-founder

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  ‘Critical mass’ is the word that we really like. You really have to integrate all of Europe. Whenever you’re there, you’re surrounded by the top people, Unverified source (2020)

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  Eric Schmidt

  Former Google CEO; tech investor

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  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... more Verified source (2024)

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  Carsten Stöcker

  Digital identity entrepreneur and author

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  In response, Europe has launched "InvestAI," a €20 billion plan to build 4–5 AI gigafactories across EU member states by end of 2025. Unverified source (2025)

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  Ursula von der Leyen

  President of the European Commission

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  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... more Unverified source (2025)

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  SWI swissinfo.ch

  European AI initiative explainer site

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  Unlike CERN, which focuses on fundamental research, the EU’s new AI centre will also concentrate on innovation and technology production, areas which Europe – including Switzerland – has yet to strengthen. This is why the project envisages a network... more Unverified source (2025)

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  RCR Wireless News

  European data centre news outlet

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  Announced in February, the EU’s AI gigafactories initiative envisions the creation of three to five high-performance computing hubs across the continent. Each facility will host roughly 100,000 AI chips to train the latest and most complex models. T... more Unverified source (2025)

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  NITI Aayog

  Indian government policy think tank

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  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... more Unverified source (2018)

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  Stefaan G. Verhulst

  NYU GovLab co-founder

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  ...the overall emphasis on a distributed, decentralized approach to AI is highly commendable. [...] we cannot rely on any single institution or center... Unverified source (2024)

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  Digital Watch Observatory

  Internet governance platform

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  ICANN (International Computing and AI Network), a decentralized initiative [...] ICANN operates like “CERN for AI,”... Unverified source (2025)

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  Scientific Advice Mechanism

  EU scientific advice body

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  At the time, the Advisors recommended that this should be a distributed institution, not a single centralised organisation. They dubbed it “EDIRAS”, “European Distributed Institute for AI in Science"... Unverified source (2024)

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  Daniela Diaconu

  ELLIS scientific coordinator.

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  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. Unverified source (2020)

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  Nuria Oliver

  Computer scientist; AI ethics expert

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  In contrast, another group, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (Ellis), wants a “network of excellence”, more akin to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, which has multiple labs across the continent, explained Nuria O... more Unverified source (2020)

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  A. L. Rüland

  Political scientist, Minerva journal author

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  The EC White Paper on AI, which was published in February 2020, however, called for something that bears resemblance to a CERN for AI, namely “a lighthouse center of research, innovation, and expertise that would coordinate [AI] efforts and be a worl... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Mark Surman

  Mozilla Foundation president

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  Surman believes that Europe should join forces with countries such as Japan, India, and Canada to pull their AI resources together. For example, if Switzerland uses 10,000 of its research GPUs – which perform mathematical calculations that are key f... more Unverified source (2025)

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  Chatham House

  International affairs think tank

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  Researchers have also raised concerns that giving a centralized institution access to the advanced AI models of leading labs might compromise the security of those labs and models. For example, effective access to design evaluations and benchmarks ma... more Unverified source (2024)

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  European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)

  Pan-European AI research network

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  Ideas for a centralised approach in developing the European AI landscape run the risk of undermining the wider goals of the EU's AI strategy. While meeting no immediate need – AI research does not require access to centralised, expensive and unique p... more Unverified source

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  Nicole Grobert

  Oxford nanomaterials professor; SAM chair

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  This has the advantage of bringing everyone on board. All parts of Europe would be included and have transparent and easy access, A physical institute in a single location would be outdated in the era of home working. Unverified source (2024)

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  Kimmo Koski

  CEO, CSC – Finland science computing

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  It is much more feasible, cost-efficient and also quality-wise better to expand with the current concepts than to start from scratch. I think the win-win situation in Europe and EuroHPC is when we are able to provide different kinds of resources for... more Unverified source (2024)

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