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Artificial intelligence is no longer a future ambition, it is rapidly becoming the backbone of how societies, companies, and individuals operate. But who controls this backbone? That is the question shaping the global debate around AI sovereignty.
In the latest episode of The Art of Digitalisation, we sit down with Vattan PS, a visionary entrepreneur building what he calls “the infrastructure for human potential at planetary scale.” As Founder of Founderly, the operating system for founder success, and Founding Visionary at V. Vattan PS is pioneering systems where humans and AI complement each other’s capabilities through Agency.
Vattan PS argues that relying on a few US-based platforms for AI is a fragile strategy, comparable to the early days of the internet when businesses ran on AOL. Instead, Vattan PS is working on sovereign AI infrastructure: tools that empower individuals and nations to build, scale, and govern their own AI capabilities.
🎧︎ Listen to the episode on Apple Podcast and Spotify and hear:
🔹 The AI sovereignty challenge – Why dependence on a handful of global providers is risky, and how small nations like Estonia can chart a different course.
🔹 AI literacy as infrastructure – Just as digital ID and online banking once reshaped how citizens interacted with the state, AI skills are becoming a basic building block of digital society.
🔹 Estonia as the AI prototype nation – Could Estonia become to AI governance what Singapore became to modern ports? A model for others to follow.
🔹 The 18-month window for distributed AI – Why cost, regulation, and investment are converging to make the next two years a decisive moment.
🔹 From awareness to infrastructure – How Estonia can compress a decade of digitalisation into just a few years in order to lead the AI era.
This conversation is not about theory, it’s about urgency. Vattan makes a compelling case that AI is moving at five to ten times the speed of previous digital transformations. For Estonia, the choice is clear: act now, or risk being locked out of shaping the future.
🎧 Tune in to hear how Estonia’s AI initiatives, from New Nordics AI Week to AI Forum and EstoniAI Meetup, are not just events, but the early foundations of sovereign AI infrastructure.
Vattan PS is building the infrastructure for human potential at a planetary scale. As Founder of Founderly, the operating system for founder success, and Founding Visionary at V, he’s defining systems where humans and AI multiply each other’s capabilities through Agency. The pattern is clear: companies depending on OpenAI’s API today look like businesses running on AOL in 1999. While others debate AI safety, Vattan is building sovereign AI infrastructure, making every human as powerful as a team, not unemployed. The Estonian AI initiatives, New Nordics AI Week, AI Forum, and EstoniAI Meetup, aren’t events but infrastructure installations, creating the builder density for Estonia to prototype what every nation needs: AI sovereignty.
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