Should Countries Build Their Own AI’s?

“You can actually build large language models around specific ideas…”

We’re all basically using US tech and predominantly US pre-trained data at that - is that a good idea if you want to maintain some kind of national sovereignty? This was a question asked the Tony Blair Institute back in June this year and is an intriguing and important line of thought. Related to item No6 in this newsletter, but scaled out to a higher unit of analysis…