RAAI Standard
Regulation-Aligned AI (RAAI): A Voluntary Standard for Responsible Intelligence
Aligning intelligence with the rule of law
Artificial intelligence is entering the financial, public, and defense spheres faster than governance frameworks can adapt.
At Nastavia, we believe that progress must move in step with accountability. Regulation-Aligned AI (RAAI) is our voluntary standard designed to ensure that intelligent systems operate within and alongside regulatory logic — not outside or ahead of it.
RAAI transforms regulation from an external constraint into an internal design principle.
Instead of asking “How do we keep AI compliant?” we ask “How do we build AI that is compliant by construction?”
The core idea
RAAI defines an architectural and methodological framework where regulatory, ethical, and supervisory principles are encoded directly into AI systems.
It builds on four integrated layers:
1. Hardware Layer – Trusted Execution
Secure, auditable environments ensure data integrity and verifiable computation.
2. Constant Rules Layer – Immutable Norms
Legal and ethical baselines, such as prudential limits or data-protection rights, are embedded as hard constraints.
3. Dynamic Rules Layer – Adaptive Compliance
Supervisory feedback, policy changes, and contextual risk factors are applied through policy-as-code mechanisms that evolve in real time.
4. Knowledge Layer – Reasoning and Explainability
Ontologies, knowledge graphs, and semantic models link data, regulation, and decision logic, making AI behavior transparent and interpretable.
Together, these layers form a governance-centric AI stack — where every computation is accountable, and every decision can be traced back to the rule that enabled it.
Why it matters
- For financial institutions: RAAI bridges AI innovation with prudential and conduct regulation, embedding Basel-style discipline directly into model design.
- For regulators and supervisors: it provides a blueprint for converting regulatory intent into machine-readable logic — enabling consistent, explainable oversight.
- For developers: it offers an open, voluntary structure to build systems that can stand ethical and legal scrutiny without limiting creativity.
An open, evolving standard
The RAAI standard is being developed as an open, collaborative framework — available for consultation, discussion, and adaptation by institutions, researchers, and regulators worldwide.
It complements ongoing global initiatives on trustworthy and human-centric AI, while focusing specifically on regulatory alignment as a measurable engineering discipline.
You can follow and contribute to its development through the public repository:
View the RAAI Voluntary Standard on GitHub
