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Adeel Salman.

CEO, Quantum Strategies

Adeel Salman is the CEO of Quantum Strategies and the author of Cognification: Intelligence Becomes Infrastructure. His research examines AI as infrastructure, data and compute sovereignty, collective and Indigenous data rights, cross-border control, and the constitutional consequences of surveillance and lawful-access architecture.

Author of all eight launch perspectives, the book and the research papers.

Original research

Source-of-record publications

  • Book2026

    CognificationIntelligence Becomes Infrastructure

    AI names the tools. Cognification names the condition produced when intelligence becomes infrastructural.

    Source of record — first edition, 2026. Publication page in preparation.

  • Research paperPublished 5 May 2026

    Compute SovereigntyWhy Renting Foreign GPUs Is Not AI Independence

    Critical AI workloads remain dependent when continuity, lawful control and credible fallback sit elsewhere.

    Working paper · Version 1 · CC BY 4.0 · sources current to 31 March 2026

    DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20043230

  • Research paperPublished 6 May 2026

    After AccessWhy Data Sovereignty Fails Without Usage Control

    Sovereignty must govern purpose, derivation, onward use, retention and evidence after disclosure.

    Working paper · Version 1.0 · CC BY 4.0 · continues Compute Sovereignty

    DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20047573

  • Research paper10 April 2026

    Beyond ConsentCollective Data Rights and the Case for Indigenous AI Sovereignty

    Individual privacy is necessary but insufficient where harm, knowledge, culture and value are collective.

    Source of record — canonical research page in preparation.

  • Research paper11 April 2026

    Localization Is Not SovereigntyRethinking Cross-Border Data Flows

    Location reduces one risk. Control depends on terms, audit, accountability, remedy and the ability to reconfigure dependency.

    Source of record — canonical research page in preparation.

  • Policy paperPublished 28 May 2026

    The Permanent InstallationBill C-22 and the Architecture of Lawful Access

    A policy analysis of surveillance architecture, institutional succession, Indigenous sovereignty and permanent state capability.

    Working paper · Version 1.0 · CC BY 4.0 · published by Quantum Strategies Inc.

    DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20434340

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Perspectives on Quantum Insights

All eight launch perspectives are authored by Adeel Salman and published by Quantum Strategies. Originals name their canonical page as the source of record; syntheses identify and link the independent works they draw from.

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