Bilge Yücel

Senior Developer Relations Engineer at deepset, where she works on Haystack and helps developers build applied AI, NLP, LLM, and RAG applications through tutorials, talks, and community education.

Retrofitting Sovereign AI Turns Compliance Rules Into Architecture Rework

Bilge Yücel of deepset argues that AI sovereignty is an engineering constraint that has to be designed into a system, not a legal or procurement requirement applied after deployment. She frames sovereign AI around control of data, models, infrastructure, and operations, and shows how retrofits expose hidden dependencies: jurisdiction-crossing data flows, model APIs embedded in application logic, managed services that masked operational work, and systems that cannot be traced or audited.

AI EngineerMay 19, 202612 min read