- Trusted AI
- An AI system for which the deploying institution can answer, in writing, who is accountable, what data lineage produced the output, what the failure mode is, and which sovereign infrastructure it depends on.
- Resilience architecture
- The set of structural choices — jurisdictional, contractual, technical — that allow an institution to continue operating when a single dependency is removed.
- Curated intelligence
- Decision-grade information assembled and verified by a human operator, using AI as a research instrument rather than as an oracle.
- Substitution test
- A continuity exercise: if a named provider disappeared on Monday, what is the institution's operating position on Friday?
- Sovereign dependency
- Any infrastructure, service or weight whose availability is governed by a jurisdiction other than the institution's own.
- Recovery posture
- The documented capacity to rebuild a workflow on alternative infrastructure within a defined window — not the existence of a backup.
- Institutional output
- Any output of an AI system that an institution will defend in front of a regulator, a court, or a parliament. Distinct from operational output.
Lexicon
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