Why choose a French or European AI?

These tools have real strengths: they are often ready to use and already built into your software. There is no need to change everything overnight. Here are six concrete situations: the risk, what your company knowingly bears, and the solution if it does not want to bear it. The choice is yours.

1. Risk 1

   Another body of law applies to your data

   For an American service, the CLOUD Act and FISA allow the authorities to obtain your data from the provider, even when it is hosted in Europe, without you necessarily being told. For a Chinese service, the National Intelligence Law requires the company to cooperate with its country’s intelligence services, and the DeepSeek app stores your conversations on servers in China.

   You bear

   Having entrusted your customers’ data to a service whose law you do not control, without being able to guarantee who can access it.

   Otherwise, the solution

   Entrust your sensitive data to a European or private AI

   The free test tells you which data. Entrust it to a European AI such as Mistral, or to a private AI on your servers or in a SecNumCloud-qualified cloud. The DGSI, France’s domestic intelligence service, recommends a French or local AI. Sinovatech delivers it turnkey.

2. Risk 2

   A service cut off overnight

   In June 2026, Washington barred foreign users, Europeans included, from Anthropic’s most advanced models. A US political decision can deprive you of a tool you depend on.

   You bear

   Your tools going down, teams blocked and customers waiting while you find another solution.

   Otherwise, the solution

   Prepare an exit route

   Export your data and documents regularly, and keep a European AI ready to take over. If a service is cut off, your business carries on.

3. Risk 3

   Confidential documents getting out

   The DGSI reports the case of a multinational where employees translated confidential documents with a foreign consumer AI, without their management’s approval.

   You bear

   Confidential documents leaving the company, with the risk of a customer terminating its contract.

   Otherwise, the solution

   Give your teams clear rules

   A one-page policy: which data goes into which tool, and what is forbidden everywhere. Provide a company-approved tool rather than letting everyone use a free personal account, as the DGSI recommends.

4. Risk 4

   Your conversations reused or exposed

   Depending on the plan and settings, your conversations may be used to train models or be reviewed by the provider. And a stolen account exposes the whole history: more than 100,000 stolen ChatGPT accounts were found in 2023.

   You bear

   Internal exchanges read, reused or made public, and a whole history exposed if an account is stolen.

   Otherwise, the solution

   Fix your account settings today

   Switch off training on your data, delete share links you no longer need and turn on two-factor authentication for every AI account.

5. Risk 5

   Mistakes taken at face value

   An AI can make up a source, a figure or a court ruling, and some models are biased from their training onwards. The DGSI reports the case of a company that followed a foreign AI’s opinion of its business partners without checking it.

   You bear

   A wrong decision or piece of advice given to a customer on the strength of an AI, with the liability that comes with it.

   Otherwise, the solution

   Check before you decide

   Any answer used to decide, price or advise is reviewed by a competent person. The DGSI recommends never basing a decision on AI alone.

6. Risk 6

   Your liability on the line

   If there is a leak, or a use that breaches the GDPR or the EU AI Act, you are the first to answer for it to the data protection authority, your customers or your professional body.

   You bear

   A fine from the data protection authority, and having to account to your customers and your professional body.

   Otherwise, the solution

   Get compliant

   Sign a data processing agreement with each provider, tell your customers and employees how you use AI, and train your teams, as the EU AI Act requires.