The study based on multivariate comparative analysis identifies the dominants of national strategies for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) of the global superpowers. The article examines both structural similarities of strategic documents and fundamental differences in goal setting and functional expectations of sovereign AI technologies. Projecting fundamental ideas of technical and economic paradigms onto national strategies for the development of AI allows the authors to put forward a hypothesis concerning the formation of a common European, Russian and American proto-models of the AI development state policy. The dialectical nature of AI technologies demands consideration of the ethical aspects of the AI technologies application in Germany, Russia and the United States. As a result of the study, the foundations of various fundamental approaches of states to the development of AI technologies were established. Possible scenarios for the development of national strategic programs in the medium term globally were assessed.