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{{Draft|author=MBauwens|date=2026-02-02}}
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'''AI Sovereignty''' refers to a nation or community's capacity to determine how artificial intelligence systems are developed, deployed, and governed within its jurisdiction, including control over the epistemic frameworks embedded in AI systems.
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== Example: The Vietnamese Non-Alignment Model ==
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Dang Nyuen explains Vietnam's approach:
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<blockquote>
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"What is AI sovereignty? A posture, an imperative or a practicality? AI sovereignty, as it currently plays out outside of the U.S.-China vacuum, is not a banner‐waving claim to territorial control; rather, it manifests itself as the quiet right to decide what counts as knowledge and how that knowledge shows up in the world. That is, an epistemological sovereignty. This sovereignty lives in the stack — in the choices about model weights, training data, licensing regimes and cloud dependencies that govern what becomes legible and what remains unseen. AI sovereignty, in practice, is a situated authorship of machine reasoning: an infrastructural claim over how the world is parsed and made actionable. When a polity engineers its own stack, it is in effect engineering an epistemic world of AI, shaping not the raw world itself but the way the world will be disclosed to users, regulators and neighboring states."
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</blockquote>
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== Epistemic Sovereignty Through Infrastructure ==
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<blockquote>
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"The kind of AI sovereignty that the Vietnamese nonalignment model enacts is an act of epistemic refusal through infrastructural design. By refusing to license its perception of reality from OpenAI, AWS or Alibaba Cloud, Vietnam reserves the right to set the horizon of what can be perceived, queried and disputed within its own techno‐social field. The third stack becomes a sovereign entity — a self-authored architecture of appearance. Every domestic corpus curated, every open-weight checkpoint released under a local license, is a clause in an epistemic constitution.
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Here, the stakes outrun the vocabulary of 'localization' or 'self-reliance.' The question is no longer whether Vietnam can train a Vietnamese GPT, but whether it can dictate the contours of Vietnamese reality as machines come to perceive it. In other words, sovereignty is authorship of the perceptual field itself. What the development lexicon still dismisses as 'local innovation' is, in truth, a claim to epistemic self-determination."
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</blockquote>
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== The Role of Licensing ==
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"This is where we see why licensing minutiae, which determine how a model may be used, modified or shared, come into play — and unlike API keys, which typically permit or deny access, licenses articulate regimes of use. They encode norms around attribution, commercial prohibition or modification, transforming technical infrastructure into a site of governance."
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</blockquote>
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== See Also ==
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* [[Digital Sovereignty]]
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* [[AI Governance]]
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* [[Non-Alignment]]
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* [[Technology Policy]]
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== Source ==
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* [https://www.noemamag.com/a-third-path-for-ai-beyond-the-us-china-binary/ "A Third Path for AI Beyond the US-China Binary" - Noema Magazine]
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[[Category:AI]]
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[[Category:Governance]]
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[[Category:Sovereignty]]
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[[Category:Technology Policy]]
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