Sovereign Enough: The Practitioner's Handbook to AI Sovereignty by Anil Prakash Singh
English | July 22, 2026 | ASIN: B0H9Z5BTR8 | 193 pages | EPUB | 7.04 Mb
Your board asks for a "sovereign" AI system. It is the wrong requirement, and accepting it as written is the most expensive mistake in the programme. Sovereignty is not a yes-or-no switch. It is a set of specific parties who could interfere with a specific workload, to specific degrees, at specific costs to remove. Hand a team a binary mandate and they either gold-plate everything or ship a residency setting and a press release while every real avenue of interference stays open.
This handbook replaces the slogan with an instrument. It reduces AI sovereignty to one buildable question: who can say no to us, and what breaks when they do. Then it gives you the locks, the tiers, the controls, and the economics to answer it for every workload you run.
Inside:
The four locks. Territory, Operations, Stack and IP, and Law: the complete set of parties who can stop a running AI system, and the mechanism each one holds.
A tiering ladder, T0 to T3. Decide, per workload, how much control is enough and where more is waste.
A sovereignty threat model and a control catalogue with named threats, named controls, and the evidence each one produces.
Reference architectures by tier, a provider selection matrix, and a crosswalk to ISO 42001, the NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act.
The business case: the cost of control, a staged investment ledger, and a governance record a CFO and an auditor can both sign.
A worked example carried end to end: a European bank credit-decision model.
Written for the enterprise and solutions architect leading a sovereignty programme, and the CAIO, security, GRC, and procurement partners around them.
It is adversarially honest. It states its falsification conditions before its recommendations, marks illustrative numbers as illustrative, and tells you which locks to leave open on purpose. The thesis throughout: you cannot own the whole stack, so close only the locks that can actually stop you, rent the rest, and prove it.
Close the locks that matter. Rent the rest. Prove it.
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