We are at the dawn of a new Era. The lack of meaningful global regulation has turned the shocking acceleration of AI, and ever more pervasive digital communications, into the greatest threats for the safety, wellbeing and liberty of humanity.
To stave off these risks and realize instead their potential to become an incredible opportunity for the betterment of humanity, there is a dire need to make them radically more accountable, trustworthy and widely trusted by nations and citizens of the world.
This requires the creation of new global intergovernmental organizations to design, certify, and govern them - and constituent processes leading up to them - that are made to be highly empowered, neutral, expert, open, federal and participatory.
This can be achieved by implementing an uncompromisingly trustless approach to their critical organisational, socio-technical and technical components; inspired by the battle-tested safeguards of state-of-the-art democratic constitution-making, electoral processes and citizen-jury systems.
Our Activities
The Harnessing AI Risk Initiative, a detailed and comprehensive plan to aggregate a critical mass of nations to create a new intergovernmental organization with three agencies, and participatory constituent processes leading up to them, to wholly govern AI and digital communications for the global public good.
The Trustless Computing Certification Body and Seevik Net Initiative, to build a new intergovernmental organization to develop and certify radically more trustworthy and widely trusted end-to-end IT systems, for confidential and diplomatic communications, and for control subsystems for the most critical AIs and other society-critical civilian infrastructure, like as social media. One of the three agencies of the Harnessing AI Risk Initiative. Launched in 2021. Interest shown by 15 states.
The Free and Safe in Cyberspace, a conference series held in 11 editions, in Geneva, New York, Berlin, Brussels and Zurich, to expand consensus around the Trustless Computing Certification Body and Seevik Net Initiative.
Trustless?
Our approach is a novel aggregation of battle-tested and time-proven socio-technical and governance principles and paradigms for the security, safety and democratic accountability of IT and AI systems, detailed in the Trustless Computing Paradigms, synthesised below in three novel socio-technical principles:
(1) Ensuring that AI and digital communications achieve sufficient security, safety, privacy, and democratic control is ultimately not a technical problem but 100% a governance one.
(2) Personal privacy and public safety in AI and digital communications is not an "either or" choice or a zero-sum-game trade-off to be balanced, but rather a "both or neither" challenge that can and must be solved by applying the same win-win battled-tested trustless and transparent technical and organizational safeguards.
(3) The development of human-controllable advanced AIs that are at once safe, democratic, and powerful, inescapably requires much more secure and accountable control and compliance systems for their core AI capabilities and training systems, because those are today largely "blackboxes" and most likely remain so to some extent.
TBD November, 2024 - Geneva, Switzerland
Harnessing AI Risk Summit: Transforming our Greatest Threat into Humanity's Triumph.
Bringing together a critical mass of nations to build the urgent, expert and participatory intergovernmental organizations that we need for a global governance of IT and AI that can reliably safeguard human safety, peace, equity and democracy, and usher humanity in an era of unimagined abundance and wellbeing.
Public & Private R&D Partners
Our R&D partners since 2015 include the largest cybersecurity industry association of Europe EOS, the largest European Artificial Intelligence research center DFKI, the leading CPU maker from Brazil, Kryptus, an the leading EU IT security research center KU Leuven Cryptography Lab, the “state secret” IT security certification agencies of Italy and Austria, and many more:
