AI sovereignty hinges on domestic compute, governance capacity: UN panel

Countries relying on foreign AI models, cloud infrastructure, and data pipelines may gain access to artificial intelligence (AI) but risk losing control over its standards, safeguards, and ability to adapt it to local needs, according to a new United Nations (UN) report.

The report, published by the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, which was established by the UN General Assembly last year as “the world’s first global scientific body on AI”, comes at a time when the US administration has imposed restrictions on the availability of advanced models such as Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos.