Signal Data residency rules can strand models trained on foreign infrastructure

Summary

IBM illustrates the depth of AI resilience risk with a scenario. Suppose new regulations require customer data to stay within a country, while a company trained and deployed its models on infrastructure abroad. Without local data, models and people ready, some operations could stop abruptly. Executives also worry about data breaches, keeping up with changing rules, losing access to data and theft of intellectual property. IBM's response is to design AI environments in which workloads, data and agents can shift easily between trusted sites and vendors, supported by automated compliance.