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

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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...

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  Haydn Belfield

  Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Research Affiliate Cambridge_Uni, CSERCambridge & LeverhulmeCFI

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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....

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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;

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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...

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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...

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  Jörgen Warborn

  Swedish Member of European Parliament

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  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, ...

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  Alexa Kodde

  Communications officer at European AI group CAIRNE.

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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...

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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...

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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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.

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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....

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  Kristian Kersting

  AI professor at TU Darmstadt

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  Together with Prof. Holger Hoos (RWTH Aachen), Kersting argues that Europe urgently needs a central institution to coordinate and advance the development of trustworthy, European-made AI technologies.

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  David Matthews

  THE Europe reporter, based in Berlin.

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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...

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  A Blueprint for Multinational Advanced AI Development

  November 2025 Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative memo (29 co-authors incl. Yoshua Bengio) arguing that "AI bridge powers" should jointly develop frontier AI

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  A semi-distributed structure, with a few core facilities, leveraging members' comparative advantages. Core facilities—fewer in number than the participating states—are necessary to create a critical mass of talent. Similarly, distributed compute can ...

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  Sara Ibrahim

  Science and AI journalist at swissinfo.ch

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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 ...

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  Nicole Grobert

  Materials chemist; EU science advisor

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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,

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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...

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  Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM)

  EU group of chief scientific advisors

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  At the time, the Advisors recommended that this should be a distributed institution, not a single centralised organisation.

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  Mark Brakel

  Policy director, Future of Life Institute

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  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...

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  European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)

  Pan-European AI research network

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  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...

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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...

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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"...

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  David Matthews

  THE Europe reporter, based in Berlin.

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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...

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