# AI Codifies Your Culture, Common Sense, and History by Jensen Huang > “[AI] codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history—you own your own data.” > **— Jensen Huang**, *World Governments Summit, February 12, 2024* ## Sources and Context - **Direct company publication:** NVIDIA, [“NVIDIA CEO: Every Country Needs AI”](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/world-governments-summit/), February 12, 2024, reporting Huang's World Governments Summit conversation with UAE Minister of AI Omar Al Olama. - **Exact original:** “It codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history—you own your own data.” - **Editorial clarification:** `[AI]` replaces “It” with the explicit antecedent established by the surrounding discussion of sovereign AI. No other words were added or removed. - **Article use:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] treats the statement as evidence that computational sovereignty is becoming cultural sovereignty. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/War With Empire|War With Empire]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Article:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Jensen Huang|Jensen Huang]] - [[wiki/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “[AI] codifies your culture, your society’s intelligence, your common sense, your history—you own your own data.” — Jensen Huang, World Governments Summit, February 12, 2024 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-jensen-huang-ai-codifies-culture-common-sense-history ```