Geopolitics
The Algorithmic Colony: Sovereign AI as the New Frontier of Digital Imperialism
The concept of 'Sovereign AI' has become a national priority, fragmenting the digital economy along geopolitical lines and shifting power to the control of critical nodes like semiconductor supply chains, cloud platforms, and technical standards. This is a terrifying new form of digital colonialism where a few Western and corporate actors hold the keys to global technological autonomy, systematically disempowering the Global South and marginalizing Indigenous peoples in a repeat of history's most extractive power plays.
