A KPMG and Melbourne Business School study found that 54% of US citizens don’t trust AI. Cryptography made money verifiable when trust began to erode in national monetary policy. Now with distrust in AI growing, cryptography can do it again. This time with ZK-powered verifiable AI, where every output is is provable, accountable, and trusted.

AI can accelerate scientific discovery—but only if we hold it to the same standards as science itself. Training data and outputs must be verified, not assumed. With ZK cryptography, we can embed verifiability into the process, ensuring discovery is both fast and trustworthy.

Great to share my commentary on the latest involving Apollo’s sale of AOL. There is real story here with AOL’s resurrection as a media, privacy, and security platform. With trust waning in the age of misinformation, AOL can drive real progress on trust by prioritizing verification, transparency, and product-level privacy.