October 22, 2024

What Is ‘Sovereign AI’ Anyway?

Pablo Chavez, Adjunct Senior Fellow with CNAS's Technology and National Security Program, joins POLITICO Tech to discuss how the term “sovereign AI” gets thrown around a lot in tech circles these days, but there’s no one set definition for what it means. Ultimately, it comes down to a race among countries to build and own the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence models.

Listen to the full episode on POLITICO.

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