Cognitive Liberty Norway’s public education materials articulate cognitive sovereignty as a foundational right: the freedom of individuals and communities to determine the conditions of their own thinking, attention, and perception without interference from external actors or systems. The document frames this right as increasingly urgent in the context of algorithmic media and LLM-mediated information environments that shape cognition at scale and without transparency.
OM’s research program explicitly adopts cognitive sovereignty as the primary political framing for its work on cognitive security and emerging technologies — including the argument that “the political stakes of technology can be largely reduced to the question of cognitive sovereignty,” especially when collective and open-ended cognitive processes are included among its subjects.