The US government has had access to all the data collected by the US BigTech for a long time, and now even more with AI. This is most definitely a digital sovereignty problem.

> You essentially pay for intelligence twice, once with money, and again with something even more valuable: the proprietary knowledge you must reveal to make that intelligence useful.

Coming from a company that has made a business out of collecting the proprietary knowledge their users must reveal to use their services, I think it has value.

> Nadella argues that if AI companies get to freely scrape the internet to train their models, it’s only fair that enterprises get to study — or “distill” — those models in return.

I totally agree with that. My hope is that open models (distilled from proprietary models if needed, I don't mind) will be accessible enough to have real competition on the services. It should be possible for a company to use an AI based in their jurisdiction instead of leaking all their data to the US or China.

The loss of privacy in the data worries me immensely. I would be amazed if there are not significant public/open data analysis opportunities into government strategic planning which in effect reconstruct content never meant to have left a secure facility.