Ontological Knowledge Blocks: Executable Compliance and Profile-Based Validation for Trustworthy AI Systems
Quick Take
The paper presents Ontological Knowledge Blocks (OKBs), a governance framework for AI systems that translates regulatory obligations into machine-checkable constraints, enabling automated compliance. Prototypes demonstrate profile-sensitive validation with SHACL latency ranging from 12.6 ms to 100.3 ms, confirming the Combined profile as the most comprehensive. All artifacts are available as open source.
Key Points
- OKBs formalize governance as a 5-tuple linked to RDF/OWL schemas.
- Deterministic regulatory compiler translates records into composable KB modules.
- Validation runs showed strictly additive violation accumulation.
- SHACL validation latency ranged from 12.6 ms to 100.3 ms.
- Prototypes evaluated in AI-assisted HPC resource allocation across 24 runs.
Article Content
From source RSS / original summaryarXiv:2605. 23297v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-enabled services deployed in critical digital infrastructure are subject to governance obligations spanning transparency, accountability, fairness, and traceability. Compliance today remains documentation-centric: obligations are described in prose, audits rely on static checklists, and verification depends on manual review. Such approaches do not scale to automated AI systems.
This paper introduces Ontological Knowledge Blocks (OKBs), a programmable governance infrastructure that compiles regulatory obligations into machine-checkable constraints over structured evidence graphs. We formalize an OKB as a 5-tuple that binds normative obligations to an RDF/OWL concept schema, executable SHACL validation rules, explicit evidence requirements, and PROV-O provenance links.
A deterministic regulatory compiler translates structured Intermediate Representation (IR) records into composable KB modules, enabling profile-based governance reconfiguration without modifying service code. We implement two prototypes and evaluate them in an AI-assisted HPC resource allocation scenario across 24 validation runs and four governance profiles. Results demonstrate profile-sensitive validation, strictly additive violation accumulation, SHACL validation latency between 12. 6 ms and 100.
3 ms, and profile equivalence testing confirming Combined as the strictly most comprehensive profile. All artefacts are released as open source.
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