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Timo Daum: A CERN for Artificial Intelligence ? The Role of AI in Today’s Digital Capitalism

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Does Europe need its own center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in order to keep up with US and Chinese competition ? 

Timo Daum suggests to take the very form of CERN as public institution seriously, as well as the design of one of its legacies, the World Wide Web. He asks for a public, transparent AI, aimed at the benefit of the World and its inhabitants

Timo Daum is a university teacher in the field of online, media and digital economy.

His book "Das Kapital sind wir" was awarded the prize "political book of the year 2018" by Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

In "The Artificial Intelligence of Capital" (published in 2019) he proposes a CERN for AI.