[Me & X] AI Sovereignty and the Commonwealth
X : Thoughts about AI and Sovereignty?
Me : Let us see ...
In 2015, I mapped out the future of the automotive industry with the DVLA. We used the maps to identify a critical issue of digital sovereignty which was the simulation models (what you would now call training data) for the growing use of intelligent agents in vehicles.
In 2015, I presented my China vs USA report in Washington. I warned about the high levels of situational awareness and gameplay in China and the poor understanding of the technological and economic landscape in the US.
Since 2015, I have repeated these warnings on why understanding the technological and economic landscape was critical for digital sovereignty, why situational awareness matters and the importance of open data at about a hundred different conferences.
In Feb, 2024, I started banging the klaxxon about LLM/GPTs being a non kinetic forms of warfare and repeated my warning about embedded values with the rise of new AI theocracies.
So my thoughts on #AI and #digital #sovereignty? The discussion is very late and in some quarters has significantly deteriorated in the last decade. I cannot emphasise enough how geographical location is not as critical to digital sovereignty as the technological and economic landscape. The clue is in the name ... digital not physical sovereignty.
Much of today's digital sovereignty debate is no different from a head of security claiming the company's networked computers are secure because they've been locked in their office with a guard dog.
X : What should the UK do about AI?
Me : We knew about these dangers a decade ago (long before ChatGPT) and the DVLA wasn't the only place. So, I'm glad to report that thanks to the early work of the AI safety institute, the sterling efforts of the AI safety summit and its focus on frontier AI and guardrails, combined with the strategic foresight of the great & good in the UK, that we have finally and completely surrendered all sovereignty on our future values to US corporations. We're up the creek without a paddle. Our best option is to invite China in (on a similar scale to the US) and surrender sovereignty to both rather than one i.e. diversification is your friend.
X : The UK isn't relevant anymore.
Me : Many things the UK can influence to gain advantages.
X : Name one.
Me : UK commonwealth is the only organisation in a position to create a distributed ground station that covers the globe. That has a role in legal jurisdiction.
X : Where?
Me : In Space.
Originally published on LinkedIn.