Today I am excited to announce that Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, has joined the BotChain project as a technical advisor. Dr. Yampolskiy is an AI safety expert, Associate Professor and Director of the Cyber Security Lab at University of Louisville, and author of nearly 100 publications.

I’ve been following his work for years, and reached out to him a few years ago after I read his book Artificial Superintelligence. We shared a lot of common concerns about the future of AI and, as blockchain technology rose up, we reconnected recently as we both independently came to similar conclusions about how it could help the future of AI. Dr. Yampolskiy keeps a database of AI failures that is very interesting and impressive, and is helping us understand the ways BotChain can help identify, catalogue, audit, and eventually prevent many such failures.

If you are new to BotChain, it is an open source project dedicated to identity, audit, compliance, and data sharing around autonomous agents — in their interactions with people, or with each other. BotChain supports better trust of autonomous software systems and is laying the groundwork, with many other companies, for an eventual AI economy. The first version of the software, which will soon be open sourced, provides decentralized registration of AIs, identity validation, and decision audit as the state of the bot is periodically hashed to the BotChain ledger using a digital certificate.

We are excited to have Dr. Yampolskiy on board. If you are interested in getting involved in the BotChain project in any way, please reach out.