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Advanced AI Society

Your AI is making decisions. But are you able to verify what it did?

Proof-of-Control the category of AI security that delivers independent, tamper-resistant verification of what AI systems did. Right now, every organization deploying AI has the same problem: no verification of what their systems actually did. Proof-of-Control changes that, delivering accountability to your board, your regulators, and your customers.

Advanced AI Society is the industry association bringing together the companies building Proof-of-Control technologies, across every industry AI touches, and the enterprises that need them.

Every enterprise deploying AI is asking the same question: how do we know what the machine did?

Logs can be fabricated. Policies describe intent, not behavior. Contracts assign blame after the fact. None of these constitute independent evidence.

This is the Verifiability Gap: the absence of independent evidence of what AI systems actually do. It's the reason enterprises are stuck between constraining their agents and accepting unmanaged risk. And without that, trust evaporates.

What AI did

Actions, decisions, data accessed

The Verifiability Gap

No independent evidence

What you can prove

Logs? Policies? Contracts?

[ Proof-of-Control ] closes the gap

With Proof-of-Control, you can get evidence at any step of your AI workflow or agent lifecycle.

Human Authorizes

Agent Authenticates

Data Accessed

Boundary Crossed

Compliance Checked

Output Delivered

Context Retrieved

Payment Settled

Model Executes

Agent lifecycle — where Proof-of-Control could apply.

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79%

of organizations deploying agentic AI can't observe what their systems actually did.

They're stuck between two bad options: constrain agents and lose value, or unleash them and accept unmanaged risk.

Source: Akto, State of Agentic AI Security, 2025

The Agent Risk-Value Matrix

Risk ↓

Value ↓Value ↑

FAILED

Risk ↑↑   Value −

Agents unchecked. Nothing to show for it.

WITH Proof-of-Control

Risk ↓↓   Value ↑↑

Agents free + proved.

The only quadrant that works.

CONSTRAIN

Risk ↓↓   Value ↓↓

Safe, but agents can't do their job.

UNLEASH

Risk ↑↑   Value ↑↑

No way to prove what they did.

Risk ↑

Proof-of-Control sits at the intersection of the two fastest-growing categories in AI.

AI Data is the fastest-growing AI spending category at 155% CAGR. Proof-of-Control generates the evidence.

AI Security is the second fastest-growing at 74% CAGR. Proof-of-Control delivers the security.

141%

Increase in enterprise agentic AI spending

50%+

Enterprises deploying AI agents by 2028

#1

Cybersecurity trend: agentic AI security

Source: Gartner Forecast: AI Spending, 4Q25 · Gartner Top Strategic Technology Trends 2026

Founding members

Rodrigo Coelho
“Since becoming a member, we've had new doors open up, starting with our Davos experience. Michael Casey who's been eight times, showed me the ropes, got me into events, and made the introductions that mattered. Without him and his cofounder Tricia Wang from the Advanced AI Society this experience wouldn't have been nearly as valuable.”
Rodrigo Coelho

CEO, Edge & Node

The Proof-of-Control Initiative

Initiative Co-Chair

Ken Huang
“I've spent years building the frameworks the industry relies on to secure AI. Agent Name Service secures Agent discovery, MAESTRO models threats. OWASP AIVSS scores risks. CSA's AI Controls Matrix defines expected practices, with 243 controls across 18 domains. Yet when an enterprise asks, ‘can you prove you have implemented a minimum set of deterministic and verifiable controls for an agentic AI system deployment?’, there is no standard to reference.”

“That is the focus of the Proof-of-Control Initiative. It defines how a minimum control set for agentic AI systems can be implemented, measured, and attested using mathematically verifiable evidence. That's why I'm co-chairing it. We're building the missing piece.”

Ken Huang|AI Security Expert

Participants include all of our members and leaders from Fortune 100 companies, which will be announced soon.

Learn about the Proof-of-Control Initiative →

Our Initiatives For Activating the Market

Initiative 1

Buyer enablement

Getting Proof-of-Control into the rooms where decisions are formed. Events, briefings, and vendor-neutral evidence that internal champions need to get through procurement.

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Initiative 2

The Proof-of-Control Initiative

The first shared standard defining what independent provability means and how to evaluate whether a system delivers it. Co-chaired by Ken Huang with founding enterprise members.

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Initiative 3

Insurance activation

Producing the three things insurers need to underwrite AI risk: enforceable standards, auditable evidence, and credible eligibility.

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Guided by leaders who've moved markets before.

Bettina Warburg

Bettina Warburg

Web3 Investor/Advisor

Foresight for enterprise

Brian Behlendorf

Brian Behlendorf

Co-founder, Open Source Initiative

Mozilla and EFF board

Clay Shirky

Clay Shirky

CTO, New York University

Bestselling author

Sunny Bates

Sunny Bates

TED brainstrust

Serial entrepreneur

Cyrus Hodes

Cyrus Hodes

AI Governance operator

Co-founder of Stability AI & AI Safety Connect

This is the moment the category gets defined.

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