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AI Sovereignty Power Map – Global Control Architectures

Strategic Framework:

AI Sovereignty = Control over national governance, military capacity, economic systems, and global narrative power.

Two primary global models are emerging:

  • China’s State-Fusion Model

  • The U.S. Private-State Model

High level analysis to groups behind AI soverenity in this country.

China – State-Fusion Model

PLA (People’s Liberation Army)

  • Directs military AI R&D

  • Focused on swarm warfare, ISR dominance, and command autonomy

Ministry of State Security (MSS)

  • Merges AI with domestic surveillance

  • Trains national models on full citizen biometric and behavioral data

SenseTime / iFlytek / Hikvision

  • State-aligned AI firms

  • Produce facial recognition and behavioral tracking tools

  • Export authoritarian surveillance frameworks globally

BAT Tech Stack (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent)

  • Corporate entities aligned with state objectives

  • Build foundational models, payment systems, citizen scoring infrastructure

Strategic Goals

  • Total population modeling

  • Export surveillance governance abroad

  • Displace U.S. dominance in global AI governance standards

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United States – Private-State Model

Founders Fund / Thiel Network

  • Supplies capital, ideology, and strategic intent

  • Backers of Palantir, Anduril, Clearview, and OpenAI

OpenAI / xAI / Anthropic

  • Lead development of frontier models

  • Privatized ethical and safety debate dominance

Palantir Technologies

  • Federal ISR, domestic data fusion, and behavioral prediction

  • Direct interface with ICE, DoD, and DHS

Anduril Industries

  • Builds autonomous drone systems, battlefield AI, and homeland security tech

  • Embedded in ISR transformation

SpaceX / Starlink / Starshield

  • Provides sovereign communication backbone for U.S. intelligence and defense

  • Ensures private satellite autonomy over state-controlled systems

Heritage Foundation / Project 2025 / AFPI

  • Institutional codification of executive AI control structures

  • Bridges private platforms with formal government power

Strategic Goals

  • Maintain AI leadership through frontier model dominance

  • Embed private platforms in federal enforcement loops

  • Accelerate AI governance bypassing democratic friction

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Emerging Contenders

UAE / G42

  • Dual-aligned AI platform playing U.S. and China

  • Strategic partnerships with OpenAI and Chinese researchers

Saudi Arabia – PIF

  • Massive sovereign investment in AGI development

  • Buying compute, research teams, and language model capabilities

European Union

  • Cautious AI regulator

  • Emphasizes "ethical alignment," but lacks compute and model capacity

  • Vulnerable to platform capture via AWS, Azure, and private labs

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Global Flow of Power

Region                  Model Type                 Strengths                                       Vulnerabilities
China                     State Fusion               Surveillance reach, control     Innovation bottlenecks, censorship limits
USA                        Private-State             Model innovation, ISR tech    Public backlash, unregulated consolidation
UAE / G42           Hybrid alignment    Strategic positioning                Dependency on both superpowers
EU                           Bureaucratic              Regulatory foresight                 No compute leadership

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Strategic Objective:

Secure global AI dominance before adversaries can lock in governance standards — even if it requires bypassing traditional institutions.

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Why This Map Matters:

  • Reveals the geopolitical motivations behind private-state governance acceleration

  • Clarifies why domestic civil liberties are being sacrificed for strategic supremacy

  • Exposes how the future of global control is being written by unelected labs, donors, and generals

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