Draft: The Multipolar Silicon: Why the BRICS AI Declaration is a Sovereign Pivot for the Global South
Summary Glossary
• The Shift: BRICS science academies move from AI safety rhetoric to AI as core scientific infrastructure.
• Compute Sovereignty: A direct call for shared high-performance computing to break the Western hyperscaler monopoly.
• The Multilingual Gap: Emphasis on local-language LLMs to prevent cultural and data colonialism.
• Scientific Temper 2.0: