Members of the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (CLAIR), which was founded in 2018 and seeks to push Europe ahead in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), have received major support. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has raised her main concern to establish a large-scale research facility for AI based on CERN near Geneva. The focus of fundamental physics shifted from the United States to Europe after World War II with the establishment of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, home of the World Wide Web.
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NASA and Boeing test Starliner engines before returning to Earthin your Political guidelines for his second term in office Von der Leyen explains: “With our artificial intelligence (AI), Europe is already a leader when it comes to making AI safer and more trustworthy and combating the risks arising from its misuse.” Now the EU should focus its efforts on becoming a global leader in AI innovations. The Commission will therefore develop an application-oriented strategy together with Member States, industry and civil society “to promote new industrial uses” of the key technology and “to improve the provision of a wide range of public services such as healthcare”.
The CDU politician stressed: “In this spirit, I would propose the establishment of a European AI Research Council in which we could pool all our resources, as we are pursuing at CERN.”
The cost is being discussed to be more than 100 billion
Claire brought up the idea of a “CERN for AI” when it was founded in 2018. “The time has come”, Since then the merger has been repeatedly pushed for“Investing extensively and cost-effectively in publicly accessible and operational AI infrastructure while building cutting-edge research and pre-competitive development capabilities.” Claure gave concrete figures for the budget needed for this in his Founding Vision No. Holger Hoos, one of the directors of the AI Center at RWTH Aachen and a pioneer of CLAIRE, Last year’s estimate: Such a project would require “a maximum of 20 to 25 billion euros”.
in March The Scientific Advisory Board SAM had also suggested this Establishment of a European Distributed Institute for AI in Science (ADIRAS), which he described as a “distributed CERN for AI in research”. It should be funded by the “European Council for AI in Science”. SAM and CLAIRE’s proposals overlap considerably, but ADIRAS should operate completely decentralised and promote AI in science across the board. Think tank Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Recently suggestedUniting these and similar initiatives in the Collaboration for Trustworthy AI. Their cost over seven years reaches 100 to 120 billion euros. For comparison: the entire budget of the seven-year research framework program Horizon Europe is 95.5 billion euros.
According to Hoos, investing billions is worth it because “what you get for it is extremely attractive: unlike particle physics, AI is a field in which the path from the laboratory to practice is very short. Then it would be an investment.” It would probably pay off financially in just a few years. However, von der Leyen has remained so undecided so far that we will have to wait and see the details. But there are also opposing voices. Belgian economist Reinhilde Veugelers Told to Euractiv: Without really good arguments, the said expenditure would be a “huge waste of money.” Clare and company would also “basically lobby in their area of expertise.” She advocates gradually increasing the budget if the project works in principle.
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