Abstract
This disclosure describes a method of independent audit for certified AI systems and robots, and for the people and organisations who answer for them. An SI Auditor is a person holding a credential, issued through an accredited audit body, that names the safety profiles the auditor may audit and expires unless renewed through recorded training and supervised audits. Before any assignment, the registry checks the auditor's declared and recorded relationships against the audited system and its owner, operator, maker, SI Managers and SI Director, and refuses the assignment on any conflict, including ownership, a managing or directing role, paid advice, or recent employment. The audited party does not choose its auditor: auditors are assigned by a verifiable random draw from those qualified and free of conflict, and are rotated after a declared number of cycles, with a cooling-off period before they may return. Evidence is taken only from signed records, namely registry entries, recorder seals, meter readings from certified sensors, twin reconciliations, acknowledgement logs and drill results, so that the audited party's own presentations are context, not proof. Audits include unannounced checks and witnessed drills of stopping, restoring and stepping down. Each audit ends in a graded opinion (clean, qualified or adverse) with findings, which is signed, recorded and shown at once on the system's live public status, together with the date of the next audit. A declared sample of audits is re-performed by a second accredited body, auditors' and bodies' rates of missed findings are published, and repeated or serious misses suspend the credential. A protected channel lets anyone, including insiders, send information to the auditor. No auditor can loosen a limit, restore a certification mark or lift a hold by its own act; an auditor may only find, recommend and, on an adverse finding, trigger the declared tightening.
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Recommended Citation
Wang, Edward D. H., "SI Auditor™: Independent Audit of Certified AI Systems and Robots, in which Auditors Hold Expiring Credentials from Accredited Bodies, Independence Is Checked by the Registry before Every Assignment, Auditors Are Assigned by Verifiable Draw and Rotated, Evidence Is Taken Only from Signed Records and Witnessed Drills, Opinions Are Graded and Published on the System's Live Status, Audits Are Themselves Re-Performed by Sample, and No Auditor Can Loosen Any Limit", Technical Disclosure Commons, (November 10, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12958