Sovereign AI Has a Price
A chip maker’s engineers pasted proprietary source code and a confidential meeting transcript into a public AI assistant – three times in twenty days. They couldn’t take it back, and the terms at the time allowed the provider to train on it. The company banned the tools outright and started building its own. That’s the first worry: what you send to a model leaves your building, and you can’t get it back. Confidentiality, IP, trade secrets – handed to a company in the business of learning from data. ...