Sovereign AI for Universities and Research: Protecting IP and Grant Data

A university should require AI that runs offline on institution-owned hardware, learns only from a sealed corpus that never leaves the estate, and writes every action to a signed, tamper-evident record. Public cloud AI cannot meet Trusted Research or export control on unpublished IP.Originally published at https://mickai.co.uk/articles/sovereign-ai-for-universities-and-research-protecting-ip-and-grant-data. 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).