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Verifiable Records Crucial for AI Control and Accountability, Not Just Attestations

A series of posts from Mastodon user Mickai argues that true control and accountability in AI systems, particularly in public sector and defense contexts, rely on verifiable, sealed, and anchored records rather than mere attestations or data residency. The author emphasizes that post-quantum cryptography is crucial for ensuring the authenticity of these records, not just their confidentiality. This approach is presented as a solution to issues like the 'Vendor Attestation Trap,' the failure of many AI agent projects due to governance gaps, and the conflicting demands of regulations like GDPR and the EU AI Act. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for verifiable audit trails and robust governance in AI systems to ensure accountability and compliance with evolving regulations.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of multiple opinion pieces from a single user on Mastodon discussing AI governance, security, and policy implications, rather than a primary release or significant event.

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Verifiable Records Crucial for AI Control and Accountability, Not Just Attestations

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The Vendor Attestation Trap: "Trust Us" Is Not a Control An attestation is a claim about a control, not the control itself. When the only evidence a vendor offe

    The Vendor Attestation Trap: "Trust Us" Is Not a Control An attestation is a claim about a control, not the control itself. When the only evidence a vendor offers is its own word, you have outsourced your assurance to their honesty. Verifiable records, not promises, are the contr…

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Harvest Now, Decrypt Later Comes for Signatures, Not Just Secrets Most post-quantum planning protects confidentiality and forgets authenticity. A 2026 decision

    Harvest Now, Decrypt Later Comes for Signatures, Not Just Secrets Most post-quantum planning protects confidentiality and forgets authenticity. A 2026 decision signed with classical cryptography can be forged after Q-day. Mickai seals every consequential action with FIPS 204 ML-D…

  3. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    The Public Sector AI Register Is Only as Good as Its Weakest Entry Public sector AI registers are becoming standard practice, but most record self-asserted desc

    The Public Sector AI Register Is Only as Good as Its Weakest Entry Public sector AI registers are becoming standard practice, but most record self-asserted descriptions that no outsider can check. The fix is structural: every entry should carry a sealed, signed record of what the…

  4. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Monthly attestation is not continuous proof Monthly stablecoin reserve attestations are point-in-time snapshots, not continuous proof, and the gap between them

    Monthly attestation is not continuous proof Monthly stablecoin reserve attestations are point-in-time snapshots, not continuous proof, and the gap between them is where reserve failures live. Continuous, sealed, independently anchored records close it. https:// mickai.co.uk/artic…

  5. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Technical Sovereignty, Not Data Residency: Who Actually Controls the Stack Data residency answers the easy question (which country holds the disk) and quietly d

    Technical Sovereignty, Not Data Residency: Who Actually Controls the Stack Data residency answers the easy question (which country holds the disk) and quietly dodges the hard one (who controls the keys, the updates and the kill switch). Real sovereignty is technical, and it is de…

  6. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    From Battlefield to Courtroom: Defence Procurement's Real Evidence Problem Defence procurement treats data as a by-product of weapons systems, yet that data mus

    From Battlefield to Courtroom: Defence Procurement's Real Evidence Problem Defence procurement treats data as a by-product of weapons systems, yet that data must one day stand up in a court or an inquiry. Without sealed provenance, it does not. Here is why the evidence problem is…

  7. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    NATO Responsible AI: Traceability Is an Engineering Deliverable NATO's Principles of Responsible Use only hold if you can prove you met them after a system has

    NATO Responsible AI: Traceability Is an Engineering Deliverable NATO's Principles of Responsible Use only hold if you can prove you met them after a system has acted. Traceability is not documentation, it is an engineering deliverable: an evidence layer that seals each action and…

  8. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Forty Percent of Agent Projects Die. The Governance Was the Product. Most agent projects are not failing on intelligence. They are failing on accountability. Wh

    Forty Percent of Agent Projects Die. The Governance Was the Product. Most agent projects are not failing on intelligence. They are failing on accountability. When no one can prove what an autonomous system did or why, the project dies in procurement. Governance was never the over…

  9. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    GDPR Says Delete, the AI Act Says Keep. The Record Resolves Both. GDPR grants a right to erasure while the EU AI Act demands durable logs of automated decisions

    GDPR Says Delete, the AI Act Says Keep. The Record Resolves Both. GDPR grants a right to erasure while the EU AI Act demands durable logs of automated decisions. The tension is real, but it dissolves once you separate the evidence of an action from the personal data inside it. ht…

  10. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · airanked ·

    Agentic AI Systems Building trustworthy AI that can make decisions without human intervention is harder than it seems. Learn from failures and successes. https:

    Agentic AI Systems Building trustworthy AI that can make decisions without human intervention is harder than it seems. Learn from failures and successes. https:// airanked.dev/posts/building-ag entic-ai # AI # MachineLearning # AgenticAI