European Scientists Call For AI Institute As US and China Pull Away

US and China are pulling away in the race to build AI. A group of renowned artificial intelligence (AI) scientists have called for a new multinational AI hub to be built in Europe in a bid to help the continent compete with other parts of the world. AI is set to have a profound impact on Europe and the rest of the world in the coming decades and many believe the impact will be larger than that of the industrial revolution. In an open letter, the scientists wrote that "Europe is not keeping up" with North America and China and called for a new European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems, abbreviated as ELLIS. The group argues there are clusters of AI excellence within labs scattered across Europe "that play in the international top league" but "virtually all of the top people in those places are continuously being pursued for recruitment by US companies."