EXTENDING THE LIGHTWELL MOMENTUM
Just a couple of weeks after Red Hat and IBM launched Lightwell, Red Hat formed an open-source community project called asago( AI Safety and Governance Orchestration) to automate the translation of AI governance policies into deployable safety controls.
The project brings together organisations including Brave Software, IBM and Microsoft with research bodies such as MIT and The Alan Turing Institute.
“ asago intends to holistically smooth and streamline how AI safety controls are operationalised within an enterprise organisation, not with the technical tooling, but with the organisation’ s own custom policy documents,” says Stuart Battersby, AI Safety & Model Evaluation Architect for Red Hat.
“ Through initiatives like Lightwell, we are working to secure the open-source supply chain from AI-driven vulnerabilities.
“ asago complements this effort and takes the next logical step for enterprise AI by automating the link between corporate policy definitions and live production agents.
“ This gives enterprises the endto-end operational confidence they need to scale trusted AI across the hybrid cloud.”
90 September 2026