Governance | Sparse Supernova

01

Safety Before Speed

AI must be proven safe — before it reaches the public. According to Ada research, 89% of people believe AI should not be deployed until it is proven safe, even if this slows progress.

Our systems include:

Mandatory pre-market safety testing for all models
Ongoing post-market monitoring for drift, bias and harmful behaviour
High-risk domain safeguards requiring human review
Hard-coded red lines preventing dangerous or unethical use cases

02

Fairness by Design

AI must treat people fairly, regardless of background. Public polling shows 91% of people believe fairness should be a core requirement of AI systems.

Sparse Supernova’s architecture includes:

Fairness scoring inside the AI’s reasoning loop
World-model constraints that block unfair or discriminatory plans
Continuous fairness monitoring, updated every 15 minutes
Transparency dashboards showing fairness performance over time

03

Independent Oversight

Trust requires real accountability — not self-regulation. 89% of people want AI regulated independently.

We enable direct regulator controls:

Independent regulator API with real-time model inspection
Access to encrypted audit logs
Ability to pause or suspend unsafe models (“kill switch”)
Clear provenance trail: who built, hosted, and trained the model

04

Transparency

People have the right to know how AI is working, and at what cost. If an AI can’t be explained or justified, it shouldn’t be deployed.

Sparse Supernova delivers:

Public-facing governance dashboards (fairness, safety, incidents)
Explainability receipts for users (“Why the AI made this decision”)
Risk reporting built into system telemetry
Carbon and energy usage transparency

05

Accountability

Harm should never fall on end-users like teachers, clinicians, or benefit claimants. We place responsibility on developers and hosts.

We enforce this through:

Provenance metadata embedded into every model decision
Responsibility-chain records (developer → host → deployer)
Automatic incident reconstruction for regulators and auditors
Mandatory appeals processes in all high-risk AI deployments

06

UK Sovereignty

AI used in the UK should follow UK rules — automatically. Our technology adapts to the laws and values of the country where it operates.

The UK Ada Governance Profile ensures:

UK/EU hosting preference
UK data residency for public-sector deployments
UK regulator authority over safety decisions
Alignment with the UK’s Paris Agreement commitments

07

Environmental Responsibility

AI cannot scale at the expense of the planet. We believe AI innovation must support — not undermine — environmental goals.

Sparse Supernova integrates:

Carbon-aware routing — AI chooses lower-carbon paths first
Energy-per-query tracking and reporting
Paris-aligned optimisation targets (−45% by 2030)
Dimensionally efficient computation (−80% energy usage)

08

Designed for Trust. Built for Accountability.

Sparse Supernova is not another frontier model. It is a governance-first AI platform built to meet public expectations, support regulators, protect public services, and uphold UK sovereignty.

We share Ada Lovelace Institute’s vision of technology that serves the public good. And we have built the system that makes that vision technically real.

Building AI the public can trust — safe, fair, transparent, and accountable by design.