Deploy sovereign AI as a staged sequence: define a zero-egress perimeter, bring the model weights in-house, run inference locally, gate the update channel, seal a signed audit ledger, then move through isolation tiers to fully air-gapped production. Each stage returns one control.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/how-to-deploy-sovereign-ai. 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).
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