The European AI research landscape is populated by many excellent AI researchers and research groups, yet highly fragmented and increasingly strained by brain drain and international competition. In order to protect Europe’s technological sovereignty and to achieve a global success for “human-centred, trustworthy AI made in Europe”, we must overcome this fragmentation and create critical mass. This requires swift and decisive action, through existing and novel instruments, to efficiently support outstanding AI researchers and to create structures that facilitate effective collaboration and transfer of results.

A key component of this investment, as envisioned by the European AI research community and beyond, is a European Lighthouse Centre for AI – a one-of-a-kind facility that brings together Europe’s top experts in AI and supports their work on large-scale projects at a level not found anywhere else, that becomes a global magnet for talent and a beacon for European ambition and capability in human-centred, trustworthy AI.

In this presentation, Prof. Holger Hoos, Chair of the Board of Directors and Director of Research of CLAIRE (the Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe), will explain why a European Lighthouse Centre for AI (or “CERN for AI”) is needed, what it should look like, and how it can play a crucial role in addressing grand challenges for Europe and the world (e.g., health and disease prevention; climate; energy and mobility; food and natural resources; and inclusive, secure societies). He will also explain how this facility can be embedded into a broader vision for excellence across all of AI, for all of Europe, with a human-centered focus.

This video was first presented at Forum Europe’s 3rd Annual Artificial Intelligence Conference on 25 March 2021 ([ Ссылка ]).

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