Surely there’s a middle ground?
This inward-focused drive toward sovereign tech reflects a wider malaise in international relations. Ironically, it is one that might benefit from the kind of “private by design” approach Apple is pioneering with Audio Intelligence.
Will it be possible for Apple’s systems to use a tech like this to empower third-party systems while protecting personal privacy? If Apple achieves this, it should help sovereign tech deployment, as it builds in privacy at the end-user layer, which can then be picked up by whatever national AI solutions eventually emerge.
It probably isn’t enough for the EU sovereign vision, of course, but could be a positive compromise pending the creation of a viable European hardware solutions manufacturer, which seems a very, very, very long way away. But positive compromise doesn’t appear to have been the hallmark of Europe’s DMA dealings with Apple so far, which may well be why the latest word from Mark Gurman is that Europeans must expect to wait at least five more months, and potentially much longer, before they even hear a hint that the two sides have reached a rapprochement.
This story originally appeared on Computerworld
