By Bloomberg
Publication Date: 2026-10-14 19:19:00
00:00 Speaker A
You’re traveling across Europe promoting this idea of sovereign AI. Is it still sovereign if it’s built on American chips?
00:09 Speaker B
Yes. Uh sovereignty basically means that you have to control your own experience. and in the case of AI, that means control your own data. Your data, your life experience, your, you know, company experience, your your country’s culture, values, um, the institutional knowledge uh of your people. uh the flywheel of creating more data, more experience, more intelligence. That belongs to you.
00:46 Speaker A
Mhm.
00:46 Speaker B
And uh the computer is is just an instrument. And so that’s one. The second is is sovereignty means that nobody could deny you service. You know, like AI is like infrastructure. It’s like electricity, it’s like the internet internet, it’s like water. And and uh those are critical resources and critical infrastructure for your society and your companies. You can’t, you can’t ever have a denial of service. and so you have to control that. That’s sovereignty.
01:34 Speaker B
Um, sovereignty means that that you have the ability to determine your own your own destiny. And you might, you might need teamwork, you might need collaboration, you might part partnership and support from other people, but at some, you know, you have you have agency.
01:54 Speaker A
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