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?asOf= parameter to see the current catalog state.National policies asserting domestic capability + decision-making over AI infrastructure: compute on shore, domestic foundation models, talent retention, export-control reciprocity. Specifically NOT 'sovereign AI' (which focuses on deployment restrictions) — sovereignty here is about productive capacity.
Definition & scope
The cross-jurisdiction picture below shows how each of 45 tracked instruments treats this topic. The patterns vary substantially — and 34 regimes are silent, leaving gaps that future policy work could address.
Coverage across jurisdictions
Historical primacy & cross-jurisdiction tension
First addressed by UK Pro-Innovation Approach to AI Regulation (White Paper) on (implicit). Subsequent regimes have either codified, diverged from, or remained silent on this baseline.
- Forum-shoppingExecutive Order 14110 on Safe, Secure, Trustworthy AI↔Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AI
- Forum-shoppingInterim Measures for Generative AI Service Management↔OECD AI Principles (Recommendation)
- Forum-shoppingAfrican Union Continental AI Strategy↔Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI
Compare jurisdictions: EU vs US · EU vs UK · EU vs CN
Enforcement & impact
Silent regimes — gap signal
Instruments that do not address Technological Sovereignty — candidates for future policy work.
- Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in AIUS
- OECD AI Principles (Recommendation)OECD
- Council of Europe Framework Convention on AIcouncil_of_europe
- NIST AI Risk Management FrameworkUS
- Bletchley Declaration on AI Safetyglobal
- Seoul Declaration on Safe, Innovative and Inclusive AIglobal
- NIST AI RMF Generative AI ProfileUS
- California SB-1047: Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier AI Models ActUS
- India Digital Personal Data Protection Act + AI Advisory (MEITY)IN
- Brazil AI Bill (PL 2338/2023)BR
- Anthropic Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) v2US
- OpenAI Preparedness FrameworkUS
- Google DeepMind Frontier Safety FrameworkUS
- Meta Frontier AI FrameworkUS
- UK-US AI Safety Institute Memorandum of Understandingglobal
- White House Voluntary AI CommitmentsUS
- Japan METI AI Guidelines for BusinessJP
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)EU
- EU General-Purpose AI Code of PracticeEU
- OMB Memorandum M-24-10 (Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of AI)US
- GSA Generative AI and Specialized Computing Infrastructure Acquisition Resource GuideUS
- DoD Responsible AI Strategy and Implementation PathwayUS
- FedRAMP AI Cloud Procurement GuidanceUS
- DFARS Subpart 252.204 (Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting)US
- California SB-53: Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act (TFAIA)US
- California SB 243: Companion ChatbotsUS
- California SB 942: AI Transparency ActUS
- Revised Product Liability Directive (Directive (EU) 2024/2853)EU
- UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial IntelligenceUNESCO
- Directive (EU) 2024/2831 on improving working conditions in platform workEU
- Provisions on the Administration of Deep Synthesis of Internet Information ServicesCN
- New York RAISE Act: Responsible AI Safety and Education ActUS
- TAKE IT DOWN Act (Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act)US
- UN Global Digital CompactUN
See also
Further reading
12 academic & grey-literature sources bearing on this topic — catalogued metadata with a primary link; one-line findings are ✦ AI-generated summaries, labeled as such (charter §7.9). Browse the full literature index.
- European ambitions captured by American clouds: digital sovereignty through Gaia-X? Peer-reviewed✦ AIShows Gaia-X paradoxically incorporates dominant US cloud providers, undermining the very European digital sovereignty it was meant to advance.
- European Dreams of the Cloud: Imagining Innovation and Political Control Peer-reviewed✦ AIAnalysis of GAIA-X, Bundescloud and Microsoft's EU cloud reveals 'a performative coupling of innovation and political ideas of control, territoriality and sovereignty'.
- EU AI sovereignty: for whom, to what end, and to whose benefit? Peer-reviewed✦ AIInterrogates the EU 'AI sovereignty' agenda, showing the goal is under-specified and risks serving incumbent industrial interests rather than European publics.
- The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty: Security, Economy, Rights and the Cloud Project Gaia-X Peer-reviewed✦ AICase study of Gaia-X finds no singular EU meaning of digital sovereignty but six competing conceptions across security, economy and rights domains.
- Unthinking Digital Sovereignty: A Critical Reflection on Origins, Objectives, and Practices Peer-reviewed✦ AICritically traces digital sovereignty's origins and uses, arguing the frame masks contested objectives and should be 'unthought' to clarify governance practice.
- Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the 'geo-dirigiste' turn in EU industrial policy Peer-reviewed✦ AIArgues technological sovereignty rhetoric drives a 'geo-dirigiste' turn in EU industrial policy (e.g. semiconductors) blending security and competitiveness logics.
- Technology sovereignty as an emerging frame for innovation policy. Defining rationales, ends and means Peer-reviewed✦ AIProposes 'a concise yet nuanced concept of technology sovereignty' for innovation policy amid geopolitical competition, explicitly distinguishing it from costly 'near autarky'.
- Artificial intelligence and EU security: the false promise of digital sovereignty Peer-reviewed✦ AIArgues the EU's pursuit of AI-based digital sovereignty in security is a 'false promise' given dependence on non-EU compute, data and chip supply chains.
- Data sovereignty: A review Peer-reviewed✦ AISystematic review of 341 publications maps how data, digital and cyber sovereignty are conceptualized and the control challenges they pose across stakeholders.
- Digital sovereignty Peer-reviewed✦ AITraces how the contested concept is now understood 'more as a discursive practice in politics and policy than as a legal or organisational concept' in digital policy debates.
- The Fight for Digital Sovereignty: What It Is, and Why It Matters, Especially for the EU Peer-reviewed✦ AIFive case studies argue digital sovereignty 'affects everyone, whether digital users or not' and make 'the case for a hybrid system of control' with democratic legitimacy for the EU.
- Inference-Time Compute PreprintSnell, C., Lee, J., Xu, K., Kumar, A. (2024), 'Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters' — establishes inference-time-compute scaling as a first-class capability lever.
References
The primary instrument sources behind the article's classifications.
- EU-AIA-2024: Recitals 1-5 + EU competence framing; AI Office establishes EU capacity
- US-EO-14110: §5.3(b) + CHIPS Act overlap (BIS export controls, domestic compute)
- UK-WHITEPAPER-2023: Sovereign-capability framing in UK AI Action Plan (2025) — not in 2023 white paper
- CN-GENAI-2023: Art. 4 + national-strategy alignment; domestic-AI doctrine explicit
- G7-HIROSHIMA: Adoption-by-developer framing; G7 carries implicit sovereignty assumptions
- UN-RES-2024: Calls for bridging digital divides — adjacent to but not sovereignty
- ASEAN-AI-GUIDE-2024: Guide framing emphasises ASEAN-bloc capacity-building over external dependency
- AU-AI-STRATEGY-2024: AU Strategy §4 (continental compute + data infrastructure + skill-formation)
- SG-MODEL-AI-2024: AI Verify Foundation positions Singapore as an interoperable AI-assurance hub
- IT-AILAW-2025: Art. 5 — the State must promote AI to raise national competitiveness and the 'technological sovereignty of the Nation' (¶1(a)) and may steer public e-procurement to favour solutions localising strategic data and disaster-recovery/business-continuity in national data centres (¶1(d)).
- JP-AIPROMO-2025: Act No. 53 of 2025, Art. 3(2)
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