September 23 11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Who's Watching the Machines? Launching Proof-of-Control, an Open Verification Standard for the Agentic Era
September 23, 2026 | 8:00 PT / 11:00 ET / 17:00 CET | Online
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AI agents are starting to act on our finances, medical records, benefits, and rights, faster than humans can follow, and soon they will outnumber us. When an agent acts, we usually cannot independently confirm what it did, or whether it stayed within the controls it was given. That gap between what a machine does and what anyone can verify is the Verifiability Gap, and closing it is one of the defining challenges of this era.
Closing it requires Open Verification: tamper-evident evidence, generated by the mechanism as an agent acts, openly verifiable by anyone, where what you trust is the mechanism itself rather than the operator's account of what happened.
Speakers
Jim Zemlin — CEO, Linux Foundation
Mazin Gilbert — Executive Director, Agentic AI Foundation
Tricia Wang — CEO, Advanced AI Society; Advisor, Dangerous Ventures
Jim Schwoebel — Head of Research, Advanced AI Society; CEO/CTO, Quome
Hart Montgomery — CTO, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
Daniela Barbosa — Executive Director, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
At this conference, Advanced AI Society, an LFDT member, introduces Proof-of-Control v0.1: an industry-led, open standard for tamper-evident evidence that an agent stayed within its given controls, tied to a known operator, across six domains — provenance, privacy, portability, authorization, identity, and security. Proof-of-Control is one path to Open Verification, built to serve as the foundational anchor for a third-party open verification community.
An open standard turns scattered, proprietary logs into evidence that travels between buyers, insurers, and regulators and means the same thing to each. Because Proof-of-Control is open and industry-led rather than vendor property, it produces neutral records that any third party can verify without privileged access or reliance on operator self-attestation. And it compounds with every adopter: as agents act at machine speed, a shared standard becomes a flywheel, where each new deployment is simpler to verify and more valuable to the next adopter than the last.
Hosted as a community lab within LFDT, this session covers the roadmap, how to get involved, and why solving Open Verification is urgent now.
Join enterprise buyers, builders, security researchers, insurers, and policymakers building the open infrastructure that makes trust in AI possible.
Agenda 8:00–10:30 PT — Open to all, no technical background needed 10:30–11:00 PT — For those ready to contribute
Register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/5916754538782/WN_lPtoi2ECR6adAJditvodUg#/registration
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September 23 11:00 AM
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September 23 12:00 PM