“To have full AI sovereignty, you’d need to control absolutely every element of the AI pipeline. Think about what that really means. You’d need to develop and build your own chips; not just design them, but actually manufacture them. You’d need to build and run your own models. Your data pipeline would need to be completely under your control. And so on.And all of this – from the rare earth elements in your hardware to the energy powering your data centers – would need to be independent from external forces. Maybe the United States can achieve this. China might get close. But for smaller countries? For Switzerland, Belgium, or really any nation that isn’t a global superpower? It’s just not realistic.”