About Advanced AI Society
Our conviction: verifiability is the foundation of trust in an AI-driven world. Enterprises, governments, and individuals will all demand AI that can demonstrate, not just claim, respect for their data, their consent, and their decisions. We build the infrastructure that makes that trust possible.
Advanced AI Society is the industry association for companies building AI with demonstrable, verifiable control over what their systems do.
As AI agents operate with increasing autonomy, enterprises need to evaluate which vendors actually deliver control over their data, decisions, and systems. Proof-of-Control is the emerging category of AI security that makes this possible.
We bring together the companies building Proof-of-Control technologies and the enterprises that need them. We define the standard and build the market infrastructure that makes a fragmented field procurable, certifiable, and insurable.
Our members operate across the full Proof-of-Control spectrum — from companies demonstrating control through documentation and auditable processes, to those delivering cryptographically verifiable evidence at execution time. The Proof-of-Control Standard defines that cryptographic threshold. Every member has a place in the ecosystem and a clear path forward.
Through ProofWorks, our enterprise affiliate, we bundle member technologies into integrated solutions that enterprises can procure, deploy, and insure.
Leadership
Tricia Wang
CEO & Co-founder
Tricia Wang has spent two decades advising Fortune 500 companies on data strategy, AI adoption, and the gap between what technology measures and what organizations actually need to know. She coined the term "thick data" and built the field around it, arguing that as we abstract more knowledge into quantification, human insight becomes not less important but more. Her TED talk on the subject has been viewed nearly two million times. At the World Economic Forum, she co-founded CRADL with Sheila Warren, building frameworks for how enterprises and governments navigate emerging technology responsibly. At AAI Society, she’s applying the same pattern that has defined her career: seeing what institutions can’t see yet, naming it, and building the infrastructure to make it actionable. The evidence gap in AI is the same problem she identified at Nokia a decade ago — institutions can’t act on evidence that doesn’t come in the format they expect. Proof-of-Control puts it in a format they can’t ignore.
Michael Casey
President & Co-founder
Michael Casey spent 18 years at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, where he was a senior columnist covering global finance. He then became Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, where he helped legitimize an entire industry — making the case that cryptographic technology wasn’t just speculation but infrastructure for a new model of trust. He is the author of six books, from a biography of Che Guevara to works on social media, bitcoin, and blockchain, including The Age of Cryptocurrency and The Truth Machine, both co-authored with Paul Vigna. He co-founded Streambed Media, building provenance technology for digital content. He served as Senior Advisor at MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management. At AAI Society, Michael brings the rare combination of someone who can explain a complex technology to a mass audience and who has spent a career building the institutional credibility that makes new markets possible.
Sheila Warren
Board Chair
Sheila Warren served as the inaugural CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation, leading a global alliance representing Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Block, Andreessen Horowitz, and Paradigm. Before that, she founded the World Economic Forum’s blockchain and digital assets team and served as Deputy Global Head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, overseeing technology policy strategy across 16 countries and regularly briefing heads of state, ministers, and Fortune 100 CEOs. She co-founded CRADL at the WEF with Tricia Wang. She began her career as a Wall Street attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore after earning her J.D. at Harvard Law School. Sheila brings to AAI Society the governance expertise and global institutional relationships required to build a standard that regulators, enterprises, and insurers will recognize.
Advisory board
Guided by leaders who've built this before.
Bettina Warburg
Web3 Investor/Advisor, foresight for enterprise
Noah Ringler
Cybersecurity advisor, ex-AI Lead Dept. of Homeland Security
Clay Shirky
CTO of New York University, bestselling author
Sunny Bates
TED brainstrust, serial entrepreneur
Cyrus Hodes
AI Governance operator, co-founder of Stability AI & AI Safety Connect
Paul Calatayud
5-time CISO, investor, cryptographer
Jana Eggers
CEO Nara Logics, ex-Los Alamos Laboratory, serial entrepreneur
Nicolaj Waldorf
Board of Vorstand
Brian Behlendorf
Open-Source leader, Open-Source Initiative, Mozilla and EFF board
Addie Wagenknecht
Cryptographer, artist, researcher
Paul Brody
Chairman of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, ex-IBM and EY
Andrew Nebus
Cybersecurity, director of digital strategy at ASRC Federal, ex-CIO
This is the moment the category gets defined.
Whether you're building Proof-of-Controltechnology or deploying AI at enterprise scale, there's a seat at the table.