The CERN for AI should be completely non-profit

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  Tim Berners-Lee

  Inventor of the World Wide Web

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  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 European go... more Verified source (2025)

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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 AI Verified source (2023)

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  World Economic Forum

  World Economic Forum platform

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  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... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Mark Surman

  Mozilla Foundation president

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  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. [...] If Switzerland uses 10,000 of its research GPUs and Canada puts forward its research computers, and these resourc... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Chatham House

  International affairs think tank

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  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... more Verified source (2024)

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  CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe)

  European AI research network.

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  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... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Gary Marcus

  Professor of Psychology and Neural Science

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  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:... more AI Verified source (2024)

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  Yoshua Bengio

  AI Pioneer, Turing Award winner

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  At the same time, in order to reduce the probability of someone intentionally or unintentionally bringing about a rogue AI, we need to increase governance and we should consider limiting access to the large-scale generalist AI systems that could be w... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  LAION

  Open‑source AI research organisation

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  To secure our society's technological independence, foster innovation, and safeguard the democratic principles that underpin our way of life, we must act now. We call upon the global community, particularly the European Union, the United States, the ... more Verified source (2023)

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  Francesca Bria

  Innovation economist and digital policy expert

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  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 ... more Verified source (2023)

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  Holger Hoos

  Machine learning professor; CAIRNE co-founder

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  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... more AI Verified source (2023)

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  Steven Hill

  Political author and policy analyst

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  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... more AI Verified source (2018)

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  Centre for Future Generations

  European think tank on emerging technologies

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  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... more AI Verified source (2025)

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  Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI)

  AI safety research institute

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  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... more AI Verified source (2025)

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