Regulatory alignment
- EU AI Act obligations
- NIST AI RMF control mapping
- ISO and sector supervision references
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The Ethotechnics Institute is the public, open-access arm of the Ethotechnics framework. We publish formal standards, a governance ontology, a practitioner glossary, and field diagnostics for teams building or auditing high-stakes AI systems. Everything here is free to use, cite, and build on.
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Reference contribution
Governance Ontology & Reference API
A formal vocabulary of 40+ concepts used in accountability, burden, and care-infrastructure governance — with scope notes, citations from moral philosophy, STS, and organizational theory, and a read-only API for consuming canonical definitions in audits, tools, and research. The ontology is versioned and citable.
Incident triage
What needs attention right now?
Follow one sequence: triage the failure, stabilize the workflow, then collect evidence for review.
- Decision appealed High · Owner in 24h
- Model made a harmful error Critical · Pause authority needed
- Appeals or reviews are stuck High · Escalate in 4h
- A user was harmed Critical · Human response now
- No owner is assigned High · Assign owner
- Decision cannot be clearly explained Medium · Review evidence
- System cannot be quickly stopped or rolled back Critical · Activate hard halt
Each option routes to triage actions first, then stabilization owners, then evidence artifacts.
Compliance support
Connect your work to regulatory and audit expectations
Each standard is organized so teams can cite policy clearly, prepare for internal review, and share complete evidence with regulators.
Audit interoperability
- Evidence fields designed for GRC workflows
- Structured ownership and escalation clocks
- Exportable artifacts for regulator review
Adoption pathways
- Policy teams adopt document IDs and clauses
- Operations teams install stoppability drills
- Engineering teams bind rollback to release gates
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For clinical AI safety evaluation, VC diligence, and governance advisory, Ethotechnics Studio offers commissioned engagements applying the framework to high-stakes systems.