Why Europe cannot let the AI sovereignty ship sail
Discussions about technological sovereignty in Europe can tend towards doomerism. It is easy to see why. A handful of hyper-scalers in the US and China control the foundational infrastructure of the modern world. The reliance on these technologies from companies and governments in Europe grows with each week that passes.
Near-total dependence on foreign-hosted and trained AI models presents a massive national security risk. If there isn’t a sovereign layer to your infrastructure, you don’t have control over the future. What if the plug is pulled or if security is compromised?
These are the nightmare scenarios being discussed in boardrooms and government departments across the continent.
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And yet, Europe has many reasons to feel optimistic in its pursuit of sovereignty. Perhaps the LLM ship has sailed, but it is what comes next that is truly exciting.
In areas such as quantum computing and robotics – and their...
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