English | EN This report, the third in the Autopilot series, explores how Europe can rethink its “golden cage” of dependency, and rebuild a technological backbone resilient to external pressure.
Key Themes Explored:
- The Three Gates of Access Denied: Sovereignty is now limited across three critical layers: Systems (the digital kill switch), Markets (the economic lever of tariffs and restrictions), and Culture (the subtle embedding of foreign norms in AI models).
- Technology as Soft Power: Software and AI are not neutral; they carry the worldview of their creators. The report warns that by adopting IT structures, and specifically AI, organisations risks importing epistemologies that subtly reshape its cultural and democratic processes.
- Alternatives and European pioneers: which alternatives are out there and which organisations and countries have already taken steps on the Sovereignty spectra?
- The CIO Sovereignty Agenda: The report provides a practical framework for CIOs to assess mission-critical capabilities and preserve “room to manoeuvre” by designing for replaceability and architectural flexibility.