The Korea Times
Governments around the world are racing to build fully self-sufficient artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems, often framed as “AI sovereignty,” but the effort is increasingly seen as impractical given the prohibitive costs and scale involved, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said Sunday. A more effective strategy, instead, is to prioritize “AI resilience”— adapting AI across domestic industries and retaining control over its use, rather than trying to build everything from the ground up — through initiatives like Korea’s “AI voucher” program. In its latest report, the firm said the push by many countries to become fully self-reliant across the AI value chain, such as Australia’s private-sector effort to develop a “national” large language model or India’s plans to build a national GPU cluster, remains, in reality, an “illusion.” “Sustaining ‘sovereign’ control over entire layers is exceptionally resource-intensive over time and has proven difficult even in relatively affluent, capable economies,” BCG said, noting that AI development relies heavil
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