About Us

Trustless Computing Association (TCA) is a micro, hyper-neutral, non-profit organization based in Geneva, dedicated to the radical increase of the safety, liberty and democratic accountability of digital communications and AI, through the promotion of innovative, effective and democratic treaty-making processes and digital technologies, based on time- and battle-tested governance and socio-technical paradigms.

Governance

The decision-making power of the TCA resides in General Assembly and Board of Directors, both of which have the same three members with an equal vote. They are supported by two full-time volunteer staff and advised by 32 members of its Steering, Scientific and Governance Advisory Boards.

Summary

Since its foundation till June 2023, its sole focus has been the Trustless Computing Certification Body and Seevik Net, aimed at progressively building consensus around the creation of new open, neutral and participatory intergovernmental organizations 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, social media and other society-critical infrastructure. It advanced that also via Free and Safe in Cyberspace conference series and its TRUSTLESS.AI startup spin-off (closed in September 2023).

On June 28th, 2023, after months of reckoning with the emergence of immense risks and opportunities of AI and their intersection with unregulated digital communications, we launched a Harnessing AI Risk Initiative for the creation of a new global, democratic, federal intergovernmental organization - and participatory constituent processes leading up to it - to wholly govern AI and digital communications for the global public good. Such Initiative includes the Trustless Computing Certification Body as one of the agencies of a the foreseen new IGO.

Our unique approach centers on a novel mix of battle-tested and time-proven trustless technical, socio-technical and governance systems, as specified in the Trustless Computing Paradigms, inspired by the trustworthiness paradigms successful treaty-making processes, constituent assemblies, democratic constitutions, democratic electoral processes and citizen-jury systems.