EU tech sovereignty may be ‘illusion’ as China, US dominate AI: Chinese expert

EU tech sovereignty may be ‘illusion’ as China, US dominate AI: Chinese expert

As middle powers will be reliant on US or Chinese tech, Beijing should make its products ‘indispensable,’ academic argues

The EU defined tech sovereignty as the ability “to develop, control and scale ... critical technologies, infrastructure, services and data”.

On June 4, Canada also designated “building the Canadian sovereign AI foundation” as one of the pillars of its C$2.3 billion (US$1.6 billion) national AI strategy.

Those efforts come amid growing unease among these countries about becoming bystanders as Beijing and Washington vie for AI supremacy.