The Mythos of Digital Sovereignty
A piece published by Just Security examines the concept of digital sovereignty in the context of frontier AI models, using Anthropic's Claude as a case study to explore who controls access to advanced AI and whether institutions have the capacity to use it meaningfully.
Why this matters: Digital sovereignty sounds abstract until you ask a concrete version of the question: who decides which countries, governments, or institutions can access the most powerful AI tools? Right now, that decision sits with a handful of private companies. If a government cannot access frontier AI on its own terms, it is dependent on whoever will sell it access. That is a real power imbalance, and it shapes policy, security, and public services in ways most people never see.
Who should care: General readers · AI governance · Policy
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