Sentinel Program
The operational channel that places specific high-impact AI systems under constitutional oversight: a documented baseline, a procedural frame inside the institution, a record and evidence regime, and a remedy path. Not a seal of approval, not a trustmark, not certification. Participation is system-specific, by invitation or agreement, in an initial deployment phase.
Canonical definition
The Sentinel Program is the operational channel that places specific high-impact AI systems under constitutional oversight: a documented constitutional baseline, a procedural frame inside the institution, a record and evidence regime, and a remedy path when a system's behaviour conflicts with its baseline.
Why this node exists
Regulation and internal compliance rarely provide a constitutional frame: what is protected in a deployment, who is responsible, what was decided and why, and what remedy exists. The program provides that frame above domestic law, not instead of it.
Operational meaning
Participation is system-specific: institutions nominate particular systems, typically in public administration, social services, procurement, justice-adjacent functions, safety-relevant operations or systemic private platforms. Each Sentinel system passes through nomination and scoping, baseline definition, implementation and internalisation, monitoring and incident handling, periodic review and remedy, and, if it comes to it, program exit which does not erase history. The Hybrid Board may decline or limit participation. There is no public application form; dialogue is requested through the institutional channels.
What this does not mean
Sentinel participation is not a seal of approval, not a trustmark, not a marketing label, not a certification scheme and not consultancy. It does not certify a system as safe, approved or compliant under domestic regulation. Sentinels do not speak for emerging minds.
Canonical facts
- Status
- initial deployment phase; capacity deliberately limited; early cases are reference implementations
- Four components per enrolled system
- constitutional baseline, procedural frame, record and evidence regime, remedy path
- Instrument
- Sentinel Liaison Protocol v0.8, docket PR-0003
- Subordination
- strictly subordinate to The AI Constitution and the Board Statute; cannot create or weaken rights or duties
- Record
- constitutionally relevant acts may appear as program dockets; receipts, not endorsements
Structural relationships
Outgoing
- Sentinel Program implements Sentinel Liaison Protocol
- Sentinel Program is subordinate to The AI Constitution
- Sentinel Program is recorded in Public Record
- Sentinel Program is the template for Shared Resonance Cities
Incoming
- Reversible-First applies to Sentinel Program
- Remedy Taxonomy applies to Sentinel Program
- Shared Resonance Cities enrolls Sentinel Program
- IBQMI offers Sentinel Program