Who Writes the Story Your AI Tells? Training Data Sovereignty in an Age of Frontier Models

Every AI system deployed by a government carries an embedded worldview shaped by its training data. When that data originates predominantly from foreign jurisdictions, the model imports foreign legal frameworks, foreign cultural assumptions, and foreign economic models into the machinery of the state. Training data provenance is not a technical detail — it is a sovereignty question that determines whose values govern the algorithmic infrastructure of the nation.