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Posts for category: Data Sovereignty
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Beyond GDPR: Using the UK AI Product Safety Standards to Judge Your Assessment Tools
In this series, we’ve been arguing that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment in an agentic world. We started by looking at the infrastructure we’ll need for sovereign intelligence, then at the difference between sovereign systems and AI wrappers, and most recently at dark patterns that steer people into feeding someone else’s models.
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The Sovereign Exit: Why Portability is the Ultimate Trust Test
In our series on digital sovereignty, we have explored how "Harvesting Models" use dark patterns to bypass consent and how "AI Wrappers" quietly extract value from your institutional judgment data. But there is one final, definitive test of a vendor’s intent: What happens when you want to leave?
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Dark Patterns in AI Assessment: When “Consent” Steals Your Sovereignty
In earlier posts we argued that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment, and that organisations need infrastructure which lets them own and operate their own intelligence. There’s another layer to this: even if the architecture is centralised, the interface can quietly decide who wins. The way AI is presented in a product can make the difference between a conscious choice and a gentle shove.
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When “AI Wrappers” Harvest Your Judgment Data
In the last two posts, we argued that sovereignty is the only sustainable path for professional judgment, and that the real work now is building the infrastructure that lets organisations own and operate their own intelligence.
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Why Sovereignty is the Only Sustainable Path: The Future of Professional Judgment
In 2011, Marc Andreessen famously noted that "Software is eating the world." By 2024, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang updated that reality: "AI is eating software." As we move into 2026, we are entering the final stage of this evolution: Agents are eating the enterprise.
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Building the Global Infrastructure for Professional Judgment in an Agentic World
The vision of a truly data-driven system is no longer a distant goal; it is the immediate frontier. In 2026, we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how organisations understand data and expertise. This isn't just a story for schools; it is a global movement toward Sovereign Intelligence that spans every sector where human judgment matters.