Cross-corpus research synthesis
Technological Sovereignty
National policies asserting domestic capability + decision-making over AI infrastructure: compute on shore, domestic foundation models, talent retention, export-control reciprocity. Specifically NOT 'sovereign AI' (which focuses on deployment restrictions) — sovereignty here is about productive capacity.
Synthesised deterministically from 13 articles that engage this theme. Empirical consensus: emerging · contested: Can mid-sized economies sustain frontier-tier AI capability domestically, or does the compute-cost curve favour US/CN/EU only? Active debate in India, Brazil, ASEAN policy literatures.. Full theme article: /wiki/tech-sovereignty. Machine-readable: /wiki/synthesis.json.
Cross-jurisdiction stances (4 govern, 11 engage)
| Instrument | Verdict | Provision excerpt / citation |
|---|---|---|
| EU AI Act | implicit | “The purpose of this Regulation is to improve the functioning of the internal market and promote the uptake of human-centric and trustworthy artificial intelligence…” Recitals 1-5 + EU competence framing; AI Office establishes EU capacity |
| Executive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI | governs | §5.3(b) + CHIPS Act overlap (BIS export controls, domestic compute) |
| UK Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation (White Paper) | implicit | Sovereign-capability framing in UK AI Action Plan (2025) — not in 2023 white paper |
| Interim Measures for Generative AI Service Management | governs | Art. 4 + national-strategy alignment; domestic-AI doctrine explicit |
| G7 Hiroshima AI Process Code of Conduct | implicit | Adoption-by-developer framing; G7 carries implicit sovereignty assumptions |
| UN GA Resolution on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI | implicit | Calls for bridging digital divides — adjacent to but not sovereignty |
| ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics | implicit | Guide framing emphasises ASEAN-bloc capacity-building over external dependency |
| African Union Continental AI Strategy | governs | AU Strategy §4 (continental compute + data infrastructure + skill-formation) |
| Singapore Model AI Governance Framework for Generative AI | implicit | AI Verify Foundation positions Singapore as an interoperable AI-assurance hub |
| Italy Law No. 132/2025 on Artificial Intelligence (Legge 23 settembre 2025, n. 132) | governs | “… al fine di accrescere la competitività del sistema economico nazionale e la sovranità tecnologica della Nazione nel quadro della strategia europea … privilegiate quelle soluzioni che garantiscono la localizzazione e l'elaborazione dei dati strategici presso data center posti nel territorio nazionale …” Art. 5 — the State must promote AI to raise national competitiveness and the 'technological sovereignty of the Nation' (¶1(a)) and may steer public e-procurement to favour solutions localising strategic data and disaster-recovery/business-continuity in national data centres (¶1(d)). |
| Japan AI Promotion Act (Act on the Promotion of Research, Development and Utilization of AI-Related Technologies) | implicit | ... maintaining Japan's capacity to conduct research and development of such technologies and enhancing the international competitiveness of related industries ... important technologies from the perspective of national security. (paraphrase) Act No. 53 of 2025, Art. 3(2) |
Evidence convergence
Sources the corpus cites for this theme across multiple articles — a scientometric consensus signal computed from inline prose citations (the more articles independently cite a source, the more load-bearing it is for this theme). 24 sources are cited by ≥2 articles.
- 7×European ambitions captured by American clouds: digital sovereignty through Gaia-X? — cited by 7 articles
- 6×Missing the Mark: Adoption of Watermarking for Generative AI Systems in Practice and Implications Under the New EU AI Act — cited by 6 articles
- 6×An interdisciplinary account of the terminological choices by EU policymakers ahead of the final agreement on the AI Act: AI system, general purpose AI system, foundation model, and generative AI — cited by 6 articles
- 4×AI, Climate, and Regulation: From Data Centers to the AI Act — cited by 4 articles
- 4×Audio deepfakes and the regulation of the landlords of creativity — cited by 4 articles
- 4×Generative AI and data protection — cited by 4 articles
- 4×Artificial intelligence and synthetic biology: biosecurity risks, dual-use concerns, and governance pathways — cited by 4 articles
- 4×Large language models reflect the ideology of their creators — cited by 4 articles
- 4×The EU model of AI governance: regulating artificial intelligence through law and policy — cited by 4 articles
- 3×A Framework for Evaluating Global AI Governance Initiatives — cited by 3 articles
- 3×The establishment of an international AI agency: an applied solution to global AI governance — cited by 3 articles
- 3×Defending Compute Thresholds Against Legal Loopholes — cited by 3 articles
- 3×Navigating China's regulatory approach to generative artificial intelligence and large language models — cited by 3 articles
- 2×arxiv:2504.18236 — cited by 2 articles
- 2×Inference-Time Compute — cited by 2 articles
- 2×Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (Council Eur.) — with Introductory Note — cited by 2 articles
- 2×The simple macroeconomics of AI — cited by 2 articles
- 2×Generative AI at Work — cited by 2 articles
- 2×Training Compute Thresholds: Features and Functions in AI Regulation — cited by 2 articles
- 2×'Sora is incredible and scary': public perceptions and governance challenges of text-to-video generative AI models — cited by 2 articles