CERN for AI is the EU’s ‘last chance’ to get on foreign competition

With the EU lagging behind the US and China on synthetic inalertigence, the idea of a CERN for AI has been geting traction — even accomplishing the high ranks of the European Comleave oution.

“I will propose to set up a European AI Research Council where we can pool all of our resources, aenjoy to the approach getn with CERN,” Comleave oution Plivent Ursula von der Leyen shelp in July.

The concept still remains at a proposal level and details are unfrequent. But according to a Belgium-based leank tank, the idea currents an opportunity for the EU to finpartner to join the field’s global directers.

In a alert rehireed on Wednesday, the International Caccess for Future Generations (ICFG) highweightlessed cut offal lowcomings of the bloc’s AI sector. These are a lowage of companies grotriumphg set upation models, inenough computational infraset up, and a confinecessitate talent pool.

According to the ICFG, a pan-European AI effort could insertress these gaps, increase competitiveness, and set up a advantageous ecosystem for the personal and uncover sector aenjoy.

“[A CERN for AI] might be the last chance for the EU to catch up on foreign persistd AI growers,” shelp Bálint Pataki, Senior Advanced AI Researcher at ICFG.

“The US and China are promiseting big-scale uncover and personal spendments into the sector — without a promiseted effort, these nations will firmify their directs and the EU will once aget primarily be devourrs rather than producers of this produceive industry.”

9 proposeions to ponder

The leank tank proposeed nine key features that could increase a CERN for AI:

1. A research caccess on solving the scientific problem of grotriumphg dependable AI
2. Sufficient access to computational infraset up, such as supercomputers and persistd chips
3. Leadership that can steer complicatedities and entice talent
4. The creation of talent and compute hubs
5. Investments in multi-level cybersecurity
6. International partnerships with enjoy-minded non-EU countries
7. An alterive approach to discleave out-source models that gets security hazards into account
8. Fostering uncover-personal partnerships
9. And, set uping a advantage-sharing system among the branch offent countries and sgethagederers

The example of CERN, which shiftd the heart of fundamental physics from the US to Europe, lifts hopes that aenjoy, big-scale collaborative efforts in AI could turn the tables for the EU. Or at least, give it a equitable shot to upretain up.