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The CERN for AI should be completely non-profit
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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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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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CLAIRE (Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe)European AI research network.votes For and says:Since 2018, CLAIRE has been a strong advocate for a “CERN for AI” in Europe. This idea is now being discussed by political leaders in the UK and the US. It would be tragic if the EU missed its chance to lead this effort. The time has come for large-...
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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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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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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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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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