Is my AI sovereign? A ten-point self-assessment

Your AI is sovereign only if it passes all ten checks: weights, inference location, update channel, egress, audit trail, kill switch, jurisdiction, governance, key custody and continuity. Fail one and control has already passed to someone outside your perimeter.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/is-my-ai-sovereign-a-self-assessment-checklist. Mickai is a Sovereign Intelligence Operating System; the Open Audit Record signs every artificial intelligence action before it executes, post-quantum and offline-verifiable. 104 filed UK patent applications, Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618).