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The CERN for AI should be completely non-profit
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For 9 (75%)
Abstain 0 (0%)
Against 3 (25%)
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Tim Berners-LeeInventor of the World Wide Webvotes For and says:We can’t let the same thing happen with AI. [...] I coded the world wide web on a single computer in a small room. But that small room didn’t belong to me, it was at Cern. Cern was created in the aftermath of the second world war by the UN and Euro...
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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...
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Elliot JonesAda Lovelace Institute researchervotes For and says: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...
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Gideon LichfieldFormer editor-in-chief of Wired and MIT Technology Reviewvotes 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...
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CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe)European AI research network.votes For and says:
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...
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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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Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)AI safety research institutevotes Against and says: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...
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