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Safety Critical Labs is an independent certification authority for AI in high stakes systems. We assess it against the failures it must prevent, and hold it to the rigor of human spaceflight.

Safety Critical Labs
AI Certification Authority
Certificate of Conformance
This is to certify that
System Name
Organization · Version X.X · Assessed Month YYYY
has been formally assessed against the
SCL AI Requirements Framework
and certified at the Safety-Critical level for the operational claim stated below.
Operational Claim
One sentence operational claim describing the certified role and intended scope of the system.
Notable Exclusions
Material exclusions from the certified scope, summarised so a third party can spot a mismatch with their own intended use.
Assessed Risk Score
2.4/ 5.0
Certificate No.
SCL-CERT-2025-001
Determination Doc.
SCL-DET-2025-001
Issued
DD Mon YYYY
Valid Through
DD Mon YYYY
Surveillance Due
DD Mon YYYY
Framework DOI
10.5281/zenodo.22775993
Requirement Areas
AI-1 to AI-10, AI-12
Lead Assessor Name
Lead Assessor
Principal Name
Principal
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This certificate records conformance to a defined standard at the time of assessment. It does not constitute a claim that the assessed system is safe, free from defect, or approved for any specific regulatory purpose. The Certification Determination Document is the binding artifact and governs in case of conflict.
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Framework Requirement Areas
AI-1Operational and data foundations
AI-2Addressing AI bias
AI-3ML test coverage
AI-4Continuous validation
AI-5Hallucination prevention
AI-6Out-of-distribution detection
AI-7Adversarial robustness
AI-8Explainability
AI-9Human-AI teaming
AI-10Privacy and data protection
AI-11Multi-model systems
AI-12Neural networks
AI-13Continuous learning and adaptation
Evaluated against the requirement areas listed on the face of this certificate, under the SCL AI Requirements Framework v3.7. Scan to confirm this record against the public register.
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DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22775993
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