The Sovereign Safety Gap: Why AI Alignment Must be Contextual.

As the global community converges on London and Washington to debate the existential risks of frontier AI, a dangerous assumption has taken root: that AI safety is a universal constant. The prevailing belief is that if a model is "aligned" in a lab in San Francisco or London, it is safe for the rest of the world. My experience as a Systems Engineer and AI governance practitioner in Nigeria suggests otherwise. We are currently facing a "Socio-Technical Gap" that threatens to undermine global alig