AI ‘stacks’—from energy and chips to clouds, IDs and interfaces—are coalescing into virtual territories that behave like jurisdictions. States and platforms will govern through these layers, making control of data, chips and models a primary expression of sovereignty.
— If geopolitical power maps onto AI stacks, diplomacy, trade, and rights will increasingly be negotiated as cross‑stack governance rather than only nation‑to‑nation rules.
Francesca Bria
2025.10.02
82% relevant
The article claims 'those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy,' casting U.S. and China’s stacks as de facto jurisdictions and urging a European 'EuroStack' to avoid 'digital colonization,' directly echoing the notion of AI stacks as new sovereign territories.
Nathan Gardels
2025.09.26
100% relevant
Vietnam’s bid to build a sovereign 'third stack' (models, cloud, training data) and the article’s framing of 'AI sovereignty as authorship' and 'infrastructural non‑alignment.'
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