War, Politics and Compute Power
War is politics by other means - and today, supercomputers, AI and platforms are the new “means” in US-China tech rivalry, compute sovereignty and AI governance.
data sovereignty
Who really owns your data?
Cyber, privacy and the rise of self sovereign identity
Beyond AI sovereignty: why the West relies on US frontier models and what comes next
The West has largely bypassed AI sovereignty, opting instead for dependence on US frontier models and raising urgent questions about control, resilience, and strategic agency.
The hidden politics of AI: sovereignty in a platform world
AI Sovereignty was never theoretical - you just weren’t paying attention
Anthropic, Fable 5, and why sovereign AI just got real
When Washington pulls the plug: Fable 5, Mythos 5, and why sovereign AI risk just got real.
Australia’s data sovereignty ambitions will fail without research compute
Australia’s lack of serious, at‑scale compute is not just a research productivity problem, it is a sovereignty problem as well. Our universities are trying to do world‑class work on infrastructure that simply does not match the ambitions in our national AI strategies or data sovereignty rhetoric.
Panel on the Impact of Data Sovereignty on Cybersecurity and Reliability
Had a really interesting discussion on the impact of data sovereignty on cybersecurity and reliability as part of the Pearcey Conversations online seminar 30 June 2021.