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Sovereign AI
May 28, 2024
Pablo Chavez, a Fellow at CNAS and former VP at Google Cloud, joins Kevin Xu, founder of Interconnected, to delve into the complex world of AI governance and digital sovereignty. They discuss how lawmakers can differentiate between good and bad AI and explore China’s Great Firewall as a lesson for digital sovereignty. The conversation highlights the geopolitical competition shaping national AI strategies and the promise and peril of open-source technologies, revealing how these trends may redefine the future of global tech.
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- Digital sovereignty trends showcase evolving landscape of control over digital technology globally.
- Countries leverage open-source models with government support to build sovereign AI solutions.
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China's Role in Cyber Sovereignty and Digital Sovereignty
China's cyber sovereignty movement in the late 90s and early 2000s marked an initiative to exert control over digital content entering their cyberspace, resulting in restrictions on American cloud computing companies. This move forced these companies to operate under stringent conditions, showcasing the evolving landscape of digital sovereignty. This concept expanded globally in 2020, with Europe, notably France, implementing requirements for sovereignty controls over foreign cloud providers, demonstrating a shift towards more concrete methods of controlling digital technology.
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