Excellent thought primer! I too have been thinking (and having discussions) in this direction. Sovereignty is also paramount. This is and needs to be a collective 'push-back' on theft by tech - data, images, sounds etc. as a commercialization enterprise. Tech companies have been grabbing individual, personal data through all manner of controls on devices and then commercializing your access to your stuff through subscriptions - for example iCloud. We need both a new approach and a new business model - or a different scale. Data centres are energy & water hogs which may? then become priority over human needs? This really needs more exploration.
Thank you, Kathleen. Exactly, this is both a personal and collective fight.
Tech has turned “our own data” into a rented service, and we’ve normalised it.
I believe that we need smaller,local, environmentally sustainable data centers and, public conversations about them, not decisions made behind closed doors.
I hope AI will help us move in this direction.
Frankly, I think this current AI talent land grab is about preventing AI from becoming part of our sovereignty because that would threaten a few powerful players.
Tech should be helping us, not imprisoning us. I'm happy that are a few players in the tech domain, and others, that are rejecting Meta ambitions.
Thank you for sharing your thoughtful and beautifully articulated reflections. I read your piece with great interest — and deep resonance.
Your vision of sovereign AI, grounded in personal growth, trust, and autonomy, touches on something I too have been sensing beneath the surface of today’s AI discourse. You bring clarity to what many intuit but haven’t yet named: that the current race is less about intelligence itself, and more about who gets to own and shape it.
I especially appreciated how you framed this not as a dystopian warning, but as a quietly radical shift — one that invites imagination, agency, and responsibility. The idea that “maybe the most radical thing you can do is not to be more productive, but to be sovereign” struck a chord. That line alone deserves to be on walls and whiteboards everywhere.
Your work gives language and legitimacy to a future that many of us are already dreaming about: not an AI that uses us, but one that grows with us. Not rented cognition, but a relationship rooted in context, evolution, and care.
Thank you again for this gift of perspective. I look forward to following your explorations — and hopefully contributing to this much-needed conversation in my own way as well.
Really got me thinking. Well written, Diamantino
Excellent thought primer! I too have been thinking (and having discussions) in this direction. Sovereignty is also paramount. This is and needs to be a collective 'push-back' on theft by tech - data, images, sounds etc. as a commercialization enterprise. Tech companies have been grabbing individual, personal data through all manner of controls on devices and then commercializing your access to your stuff through subscriptions - for example iCloud. We need both a new approach and a new business model - or a different scale. Data centres are energy & water hogs which may? then become priority over human needs? This really needs more exploration.
Thank you, Kathleen. Exactly, this is both a personal and collective fight.
Tech has turned “our own data” into a rented service, and we’ve normalised it.
I believe that we need smaller,local, environmentally sustainable data centers and, public conversations about them, not decisions made behind closed doors.
I hope AI will help us move in this direction.
Frankly, I think this current AI talent land grab is about preventing AI from becoming part of our sovereignty because that would threaten a few powerful players.
Tech should be helping us, not imprisoning us. I'm happy that are a few players in the tech domain, and others, that are rejecting Meta ambitions.
This is a topic I'm investigating quite hard.
Thank you for sharing your thoughtful and beautifully articulated reflections. I read your piece with great interest — and deep resonance.
Your vision of sovereign AI, grounded in personal growth, trust, and autonomy, touches on something I too have been sensing beneath the surface of today’s AI discourse. You bring clarity to what many intuit but haven’t yet named: that the current race is less about intelligence itself, and more about who gets to own and shape it.
I especially appreciated how you framed this not as a dystopian warning, but as a quietly radical shift — one that invites imagination, agency, and responsibility. The idea that “maybe the most radical thing you can do is not to be more productive, but to be sovereign” struck a chord. That line alone deserves to be on walls and whiteboards everywhere.
Your work gives language and legitimacy to a future that many of us are already dreaming about: not an AI that uses us, but one that grows with us. Not rented cognition, but a relationship rooted in context, evolution, and care.
Thank you again for this gift of perspective. I look forward to following your explorations — and hopefully contributing to this much-needed conversation in my own way as well.
Thank you for your supportive and kind words.
I have started to think about this as well.
Quite interesting.