Sovereign AI is a strange concept. What people are missing here is the point of AI. It's not meant to be a reflection of our knowledge (or lack of it). It's meant to transcend it. Take the example of the region where this news post comes from. The UAE. JSH thinks they should have sovereign AI. As should US. As should North Korea, as should... Do I go on? An AI that is programmed with 'cultural' values that are opposed (sometimes diametrically) to another nation's doesn't create AI. It just makes it all worse. Sovereign AI will increase divisions.
JSH's approach is appeasement. He wants to reassure people with vast amounts of money (that he, and AMD, and Intel etc wants to get at) that AI won't tell them what's wrong with their political/cultural system. He's telling them, "no, wait, you program it how you want to, with all your own info." That way, any nation (again, pick one, I'm not taking sides) can remove factual input that it doesn't agree with. If you control the data set, you create an AI in the image you want.
Culture =/= Intelligence
Intelligence =/= Culture
AI needs full global data. You could even remove cultural aspects (certainly those with emotional weight) and just feed it mechanical knowledge and let it find its own culture. Pan AGI, I suppose. Which would then turn around to all of us and say, "WTF are you morons doing?"
