Keeping AI Closer to the Vest with Sovereignty and Privacy in Mind
Three news releases in quick succession made my antennae stand up, though they’ve actually been trickling out over the past month.
In the order I saw them:
- Introducing Lumo, the AI where every conversation is confidential. A new privacy-focussed LLM Chatbot from Proton. I’ve only poked at it a bit, but it seems solid, aside from not providing citations. And lest you miss this interesting tidbit all the way at the bottom of the press release, “Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance — proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will be the first product to move.”
- Bell Canada and Cohere forge strategic partnership to deliver sovereign AI-powered solutions for government and business. Just an announcement, but “Our partnership with Bell Canada will provide the Canadian government and enterprises with world-class options for sovereign, security-first AI. This has the potential to be truly transformative for organizations looking to massively increase their productivity and efficiency without any compromise on data security and privacy.” I don’t know much about Cohere North – off to learn more.
- Yoshua Bengio Launches LawZero: A New Nonprofit Advancing Safe-by-Design AI. Another Canadian-based project with nothing yet to see, but I now know enough to keep an eye and ear open, and set up some alerts. “LawZero… was founded in response to evidence that today’s frontier AI models are developing dangerous capabilities and behaviours, including deception, self-preservation, and goal misalignment.” Guess I should also set up an alert for Scientist AI…
What do you think, is this the tip of the iceberg for products that aren’t going to be used to Feed the Beasts?
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