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As bipartisan Congressional proposals demand continuous agent verification and third-party evaluation, and as frontier lab leaders call to pace AI capability growth, Advanced AI Society, the alliance making trust in AI possible, today announced its membership in the Linux Foundation and LF Decentralised Trust and the launch of an open verification ecosystem.
To answer growing statutory mandates and security requirements across enterprise and public systems, the alliance has released the v1.0 working draft of Proof-of-Control for public comment through October 30, 2026 at advancedaisociety.org/proof-of-control.
Hosted by LF Decentralised Trust as a lab, this new standard builds directly on the production-proven Verifiable AI technologies of the alliance’s member companies. Co-designed alongside a coalition of over 80 global security leaders across enterprise sectors, it validates market demand for interoperable tools that make agent execution openly verifiable by anyone without relying on the operator’s word.
The announcement addresses the widening Verifiability Gap as autonomous AI agents begin to act faster than manual human oversight can track. Grounded in the core principle that verification cannot belong to the verified, unaffiliated, neutral third parties, as well as agent developers and deployers, must be able to openly verify the work of AI agents.
Open verification represents the next category of open source: extending open-source principles to the agentic stack where you cannot secure what you cannot inspect, and you cannot delegate what you cannot openly verify. By housing its open standards within the neutral commons of the Linux Foundation, the alliance ensures that machine trust rests on transparent mechanisms anyone can openly verify, rather than vendor promises or self-attestation.
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“Built by our members and over 80 global security leaders, Proof-of-Control brings production-proven verifiable AI technologies together into a unified open standard,” says Tricia Wang, Co-Founder and CEO of Advanced AI Society.
“Safety checks and traditional audits are necessary, but when AI agents act in milliseconds, an annual or even quarterly stamp of approval isn’t enough. Trust requires continuous monitoring anyone can inspect. Launching at LF Decentralised Trust prevents a single company from owning the referee.”
“An agent’s runtime log is just a claim until anyone can verify it for themselves,” says Ken Huang, Co-Chair of Proof-of-Control.
“Proof-of-Control turns open verification into standard operating practice: it requires an agent’s authority to be defined before it acts, produces evidence at runtime that it stayed inside that authority, and makes that evidence auditable across the whole agent lifecycle. Trusting AI agents requires decentralised mechanisms that no single vendor can control or alter, making LF Decentralised Trust the natural home for this moment’s urgency,” says Daniela Barbossa, General Manager, Decentralised Technologies, Linux Foundation, and Executive Director, LF Decentralised Trust.
“Welcoming Advanced AI Society as a member and Proof-of-Control as a new LF Decentralised Trust lab connects their standard-setting work with our global ecosystem of builders who specialise in open verification technologies. In cryptography, the rule is: don’t trust, verify. Autonomous AI shouldn’t be an exception,” says Dr. Hart Montgomery, CTO of LF Decentralised Trust.
“When non-deterministic machines make decisions in milliseconds, human inspection fails. Only automated tools can keep pace, and while cryptography cannot be used to solve every security problem related to agents, it can help considerably with some of them. As an LF Decentralised Trust lab, Proof-of-Control brings the evidentiary rigor established in projects such as AnonCreds and Trust Over IP to the agentic stack, giving developers the building blocks to openly verify machine authority without relying on proprietary black boxes.”
Public Launch Briefing
Advanced AI Society and LF Decentralised Trust will co-host a public launch event on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, “Who’s Watching the Machines? Launching Open Verification, the Proof-of-Control Standard for the Agentic Era,” featuring alliance leaders, builders, deployers and policy experts. Register at advancedaisociety.org/announcements/webinar1.
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