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April 26, 2023

‘Combat godlike AI with benevolent godlike AI’ — the call for a CERN-like AI supercomputer

"Models will get more powerful anyway... We should empower citizens, researchers and companies to keep pace with and mitigate risks.”


Tim Smith

4 min read

A lot of very clever people are calling for a pause — or at least a slowdown — of the development of ever-more powerful AI models. 

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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