Interface Sovereignty™ is the principle that individuals and organizations should retain control over the interfaces through which their data, actions, and expressions are mediated by AI systems. It ensures that the translation layer between human cognition and machine logic remains transparent, user-aligned, and free from monopolistic capture.
1. Interface Control – The right to choose, design, or host the interface that mediates your interaction with AI systems.
2. Transparency – Interfaces must reveal how prompts, data, and context are being interpreted or modified before output.
3. User Autonomy – Individuals should be able to modify, port, or exit interfaces without losing continuity of their digital identity.
4. Interoperability – Interfaces should communicate through open standards rather than closed ecosystems to preserve sovereignty across systems.
An entity demonstrates Interface Sovereignty™ when:
✓ It can define, modify, or export its AI interface without losing function or ownership.
✓ Interface transparency (input/output mediation) is verifiable.
✓ User data remains portable and under explicit consent.
✓ Interaction logs are self-hosted or transparently auditable.
✓ Cross-interface behavior is consistent and traceable.
Interface Sovereignty™ is freedom of cognition in the AI age.
If you don’t own the interface, you don’t own your intent.
It’s how you ensure that when you speak to an AI, it’s still you speaking — not the system rewriting what you mean.