The Founder's Notebook · Why I'm Building the AI Trust Council

The Founder's Notebook: Why I'm Building the AI Trust Council, and What I'm Afraid Of

I started this company because the most consequential question of our era is no longer whether a piece of content was published. It is whether the person who signed it was real, and whether their claim about how it was made is true. We have built no institution to answer that question on a public record. So I started one. This is the long version of that decision.

A founder essay in nine sections. The catalyzing morning. The technical gap C2PA was never going to fix. The institutional gap consortia cannot fill. The choice of Delaware. The reasoning behind the AI Trust Council. Five things I got wrong in 2024. Three things I am afraid of now. Five predictions you can hold me to. A direct address to journalists, regulators, high-tech CEOs, and individuals who want to be part of the work.

Read the full essay at https://theailab.org/insights/the-founders-notebook