Digital sovereignty – the clash between wanting to take back control, but handing it over to agentic AI instead!

Synchronicity can be revealing. When unrelated stories co-incide, sometimes they illuminate each other in surprising ways, despite not sharing a causal link. Two industry white papers recently arrived in my inbox.

The first covers the hot-button topic of our uncertain age: digital sovereignty, in an era not just of disruptive technology, but also the tearing up of political orthodoxy. How to maintain control when everything is in flux, and our allegiances are either challenged, or forced upon us by external circumstance?

And the second is a report on agentic AI from Economist Enterprise, the strategic insights wing of The Economist Group, publisher of the respected magazine. In that white paper’s analysis, organizations are not just being pulled apart by agentic AI, but are also pursuing the technology relentlessly, despite the damage it is apparently causing.

In short, we want to seize back control of our technology and data, says one...

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