From 2 August 2026 the EU AI Act's main obligations apply, including record-keeping, logging, and transparency duties for high-risk and synthetic-content systems. Most compliance plans quietly assume a regulator will trust the vendor's own logs. The Open Audit Record is offline-verifiable by the regulator without trusting the operator, turning compliance from attestation into proof.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/audit-the-regulator-can-verify. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 101 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).
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