Dimitrov Petrov, Stoyanov Levski, Rakovski, 2026. "Sovereign Artificial Intelligence: Infrastructure, Governance, and National AI Ecosystems", International Journal of Review Computing and Information Technology (IJRCIT) 1(1): 1-17.

This century is bastardized on AI, technology that could be the most disruptive in human history — changing how economies operate; how nations defend against internal and external threats while viewing opportunities to achieve a sustainable peace process; even the way public administration of governments prepare for empirical scientific research studying global competitive sustainability. AI systems – which need access to large-scale computing infrastructure, advanced semiconductor technologies, and vast datasets to run – are recognized as being strategic relative power over their sovereignty; therefore the nations of the world are awakening to endow Sovereign Artificial Intelligence or Sovereign AI. Sovereign AI — the ability for a nation to develop, deploy and regulate its own AI systems via domestic infrastructure, local data sources, human capacity, governance structure; all while retaining strategic independence in tech decisions and ownership over critical digital assetsAs the world became more integrated with foreign technology vendors and cloud platforms - so too did increased concerns around data privacy, cybersecurity threats, dependence on foreign individuals technologies - a weaker economy. This is why countries all over the globe are investing billions into sovereign AI abilities to create digital sovereignty, cater to domestic preferences or create future-proof technologies. These include data sovereignty, infrastructure sovereignty, governance sovereignty (Gajbhiye et al., 2023) and model sovereignty that together dictate which balanced Sovereign values can produce depreciated or low harmonised interpretations of the ways that a nation can develop AI according to its legalethical–cultural–economic priorities.It is a primer on what you need to have, i.e., the building blocks, infrastructure, governance frameworks and ecosystem components to support Sovereign AI systems. High-performance computing, sovereign cloud platform, a national data ecosystem, regulatory policy and promo talent coming together for AI independence success. It studies factors relating to the economy, security, and strategy for Sovereign AI implementation. It further analyses global trends and strategies adopted by the best performing nations to build a competitive AI ecosystem.

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