Sovereign AI
Sovereign AI refers to domestically sourced AI models, tools, and infrastructure.
The United States is home to the leading AI companies that have defined the generative AI boom. Increasingly, countries have realized how important a role the maker of an AI model is — not only do you decide what material it was trained on, you get to decide what the AI model knows as the truth.
As the United States upsets long-standing alliances and uses trade to gain leverage across the globe, nations are growing uneasy with America dominating so much of AI technology. Countries around the world are racing to build their own sovereign AI systems, and companies like Nvidia are actively seeking this business.
Journalists should pay attention to who are the arbiters of truth for controversial topics as countries develop their own national models, and be aware that propaganda and re-written history can be baked into these systems, in ways that users may not understand.
To lessen this reliance on US tech, EU leaders set out to create an alternative tech “EuroStack” that could replace American tech with home-grown European alternatives for AI, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Over the past few months, EU officials have embraced the plan and fleshed out details of the ambitious initiative.— Sherwood News
But Nvidia is also telling the leaders of foreign governments that building and training their own AI systems can have… other benefits. At an event in Dubai earlier this year, Huang told Omar Al Olama, the UAE’s Minister of AI, “It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history — you own your own data.— Sherwood News