Sovereignty in the Age of AI | Shalev Hulio, Dream | RAISE Summit 2026

Global leaders are increasingly prioritizing sovereign AI to secure national infrastructure by controlling the full AI architecture from data to deployment, driven by fears of external shutdowns and the weaponization of open models by state-sponsored threat groups. The cybersecurity landscape is shifting toward an autonomous "AI versus AI" dynamic where traditional reactive defenses are deemed insufficient against rapid, unregulated advancements, particularly from adversaries lacking restrictive guardrails. With the convergence of computing power, cyber capabilities, and quantum technology defining future superpowers, nations face an existential imperative to rapidly assess their capacity to execute a sovereign AI strategy or risk obsolescence in the coming era.