At a surface level, the buzz around AI sovereignty may seem at odds with an IT ecosystem built on global open source resources. Red Hat CIO Marco Bill offered a different perspective in InformationWeek’s CIO Reality Check.
In a video interview, Bill elaborated on what AI sovereignty means for organizations and how it is achieved in an interconnected world.
many people IT resources used by AI can span continents For many companies. Nation-states seek AI sovereignty, which places critical AI resources such as data and infrastructure under regional or organizational control. This speaks to regulators’ concerns that the aggressor or its allies could gain an advantage in the AI race or steal information they shouldn’t have.
Bill has a career in IT. over 30 yearsstates that organizations need to take inventory of their resources to understand where their data resides. This not only helps you comply with policies, but also helps you discover problems early. Data issues could take years to address, including rebuilding around that data, he said. The need for such inventories may be even more of a priority if a company works with the military or other government agencies that require greater scrutiny.
“Start with inventory. Start with the business case you have. Inventory is not just data, it’s literally the entire architecture,” says Bill.
Such knowledge can make the difference in knowing where you can and cannot deploy a particular stack. Of course, compliance with national laws and protection from reputational risks remain essential to AI sovereignty. This makes a detailed inventory essential for organizations where the resources that feed AI are widely distributed.
“You need a pretty deep inventory to really understand where the services are coming from, where the data is going, and where the stacks and applications that connect to those services are,” Bill says.
An edited video interview with Bill can be found above, where he explains more about how the push for AI sovereignty is accelerating and how it will impact various industries.
