About
Sovereign AI Finance is a field-building initiative, formalized in May 2024, focused on developing the financial and institutional foundations required for states to sustain advanced AI capability as public infrastructure. The framework is defined, the catastrophic risk argument is articulated, and the core vocabulary is established. Ongoing work focuses on research development, policy translation, and engagement with institutions operating at the intersection of AI, finance, and governance.
This work is intended for researchers and funders working on catastrophic AI risk, AI governance, and long-term institutional capacity, alongside the sovereign and public-finance institutions whose decisions ultimately determine whether such capacity is built. It speaks to AI safety researchers concerned with the enforcement gap in non-frontier jurisdictions, to AI governance scholars working on institutional design, and to ministries of finance, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and digital and AI policy institutions whose architecture is the object of the work.
The work is stewarded by Christopher Sanchez, whose research and advisory work focuses on AI governance, sovereign finance, and institutional design. Stewardship is oriented toward continuity, conceptual clarity, and institutional relevance.
Financing without rights produces capacity without direction. Rights without financing produce principles without enforcement. Sovereign AI Finance builds on earlier work on the Global AI Bill of Rights, initiated in 2021, extending that foundation from rights into the financial and institutional capacity required to uphold them.
