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The CERN for AI should have a central hub in one location
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Ian HogarthUK AI Safety Institute chairvotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Fredrik HeintzProfessor of computer sciencevotes For and says:This would be the focus of a critical mass that offers the best research facilities – a CERN for AI. Unverified source (2020)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Kristian KerstingComputer scientist; Co-Director hessian.AIvotes For and says:fortytwo could be the cornerstone for a groundbreaking ‘CERN for AI’ initiative. Unverified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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The Adaptive MindGerman AI research centervotes For and says:Kersting argues that Europe urgently needs a central institution to coordinate and advance the development of trustworthy, European-made AI technologies. Unverified sourceDelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Technische Universität DarmstadtGerman public research universityvotes For and says:Als zentrales KI-Forschungszentrum müsse das „CERN für KI“ mit modernster Recheninfrastruktur [...] ausgestattet werden. Unverified source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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LAIONOpen‑source AI research organisationvotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Andrea MiottiFounder and CEO of ControlAIvotes For and says:MAGIC (the Multilateral AGI Consortium) would be the world’s only advanced and secure AI facility... Unverified source (2023)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Centre for Future GenerationsEuropean think tank on emerging technologiesvotes For and says:Create a single, dedicated talent hub, accompanied by 1-5 separate compute hubs; Unverified source (2024)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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CAIRNEPan-European AI research confederationvotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Antonio KrügerGerman AI research institute leadervotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Future of Life InstituteNonprofit on existential risksvotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe)European AI research network.votes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Kevin KohlerResearcher, Simon Institutevotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)German AI research centervotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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European CommissionEU's executive bodyvotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Axel VossGerman MEP; EU digital policy advocatevotes For and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Holger HoosMachine learning professor; CAIRNE co-foundervotes For and says:‘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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Eric SchmidtFormer Google CEO; tech investorvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Carsten StöckerDigital identity entrepreneur and authorvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Ursula von der LeyenPresident of the European Commissionvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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SWI swissinfo.chEuropean AI initiative explainer sitevotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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RCR Wireless NewsEuropean data centre news outletvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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NITI AayogIndian government policy think tankvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Stefaan G. VerhulstNYU GovLab co-foundervotes Against and says:...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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Digital Watch ObservatoryInternet governance platformvotes Against and says:ICANN (International Computing and AI Network), a decentralized initiative [...] ICANN operates like “CERN for AI,”... Unverified source (2025)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Scientific Advice MechanismEU scientific advice bodyvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Daniela DiaconuELLIS scientific coordinator.votes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Nuria OliverComputer scientist; AI ethics expertvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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A. L. RülandPolitical scientist, Minerva journal authorvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Mark SurmanMozilla Foundation presidentvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Chatham HouseInternational affairs think tankvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)Pan-European AI research networkvotes Against and says: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 sourceDelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Nicole GrobertOxford nanomaterials professor; SAM chairvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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Kimmo KoskiCEO, CSC – Finland science computingvotes Against and says: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)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.
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