Digital Sovereignty

Choosing Ethical and European AI

Evaluating AI: the criteria for vendor selection

Seminar 1

13:2015 mins13/11/2026

The hype in AI is centered around the same names: Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI. The narrative is simple: there’s a big GPT that can solve all your problems, and the best GPT is mine.

But the truth is different: we can choose suppliers based on a variety of criteria.

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I first explained how to select suppliers in the digital economy—both as an entrepreneur and as a developer—many years ago. So, what’s new today?

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In this brief talk, we’ll focus on the main criteria for choosing AI suppliers, as well as the specific considerations for AI. But more importantly, we’ll begin building a European community committed to making conscious choices, not emotional ones.

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