About Advanced AI Society

Our conviction: in a world where AI agents outnumber humans and make autonomous decisions at scale, proving what happened through verification is the non-negotiable foundation for trust. Enterprises, governments, and individuals will demand AI that verifies, not just claims, what it does with their data, their authorization, and their decisions.

Advanced AI Society is the industry association for companies building verifiable AI, a category of AI security. Our goal is to make verifiable AI publicly definable, commercially procurable, independently certifiable, and broadly insurable so that verification becomes the default for every AI system.

We bring together the companies building verifiable AI technologies and the enterprises that need them. We are building the market infrastructure that makes a fragmented field procurable, certifiable, and insurable.

Our members operate across the full spectrum of verification, from Self-Verifiable to Independently Verifiable to Cryptographically Verifiable. This spectrum is Proof-of-Control. We're developing the Proof-of-Control Certification for the full spectrum and defining the Proof-of-Control Standard for the third stage: cryptographic verification.

ProofWorks is our enterprise affiliate, bundling member technologies into integrated solutions for enterprises building a verifiable AI stack, with applications ranging from sovereign AI to agent identity management to provable compliance.

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.

Julie Tsai

Board Member

Julie Tsai is a CISO-in-Residence at Ballistic Venture Capital, Board Member of the Bay Area CSO Council, and Cybersecurity Lead for AI Insiders. She was a six-time Cybersecurity Head/CISO and SecDevOps specialist who has worked at seven-person startups to Fortune 1, most recently at Roblox, and had senior leadership roles at WalmartLabs and Box. She currently advises several startups and is an LP with OneWay Ventures and Rain Capital. She guest teaches at the Merritt College cybersecurity program, on the IANS faculty, and graduated from Stanford. She’s passionate about using AI and DevSecOps tools to uplift the practice, organizational leadership at the board and corporate level and beyond, and how technology is used to realize our best values.

Bettina Warburg

Board Member

Bettina Warburg is an investor and advisor at the intersection of Web3 and AI. One of the first to bring blockchain to a global audience through TED and WIRED, her work has shaped how executives, policymakers, and technologists understand the convergence of decentralized systems and artificial intelligence. Previously she co-founded Warburg Serres (early-stage VC) and Animal Ventures (emerging tech advisory). Bettina is a founding member of the Public AI Network and a board member of the Advanced AI Society. Her writing and talks have appeared at the World Government Summit, DLD Munich, Skoll World Forum, and IBM Think, among others.