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Co-founder and CEO of Cohere; co-author of "Attention Is All You Need" Transformer paper
This sentiment of renting AI from someone rather than owning it is a national security risk [...] You need to fully control it.
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The EU should build sovereign AI infrastructure to reduce dependence on US providers
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AI Verified Yes. In context, Fortune presents Gomez as arguing that democracies should stop renting AI from foreign providers, build sovereign systems they control end-to-end, and invest in shared capacity so critical infrastructure is not dependent on a few U.S. firms. That makes this quote part of a clear supportive position on the statement’s full policy substance, even though the article speaks more broadly about democracies and alliances than the EU by name. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/cohere-ceo-sovereign-ai-anthropic-mythos-national-security-risk/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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AI Verified For. The quote says renting AI instead of owning it is a "national security risk" and that governments "need to fully control it." In the source context, Gomez argues democracies should build sovereign, domestically controlled AI capacity so they are not dependent on a few U.S. providers; applying that to the EU is a strong inference, though he speaks about democracies/middle powers more broadly rather than naming the EU alone. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/cohere-ceo-sovereign-ai-anthropic-mythos-national-security-risk/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago

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AI Verified Fortune’s June 23, 2026 article at the supplied URL contains the quote in full and attributes it to Aidan Gomez; the omission marker in the stored version is acceptable because it only skips the in-line attribution between the two quoted sentences. The page date and source URL also match the stored values. ([fortune.com](https://fortune.com/2026/06/23/cohere-ceo-sovereign-ai-anthropic-mythos-national-security-risk/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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