Aidan Gomez on The EU should build sovereign AI infras…

Aidan Gomez

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 · 3mo 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 · 3mo ago

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Each country cannot depend on a single other country. They need to spread their bets and make sure that they're resilient in the event that one of those gets switched off.

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