About us

TCA at a Glance

Please explore our Highlights and delve into our Summary, which provides an overview of our Organization, Strategic Approach, Key Initiatives, our core activities and strategic direction.

Higlights

Organization Overview:

  • A non-profit, impartial organization headquartered in Geneva

  • Committed to improving the safety, freedom, and democratic oversight of digital communications and artificial intelligence

Approach:

  • Employs a comprehensive mix of robust technical, socio-technical, and governance frameworks

  • Draws inspiration from democratic constitutions, electoral processes, and citizen-jury systems

Key Initiatives:

  • Harnessing AI Risk Initiative

  • Initiated a campaign to establish three new global intergovernmental organisations to address both the challenges and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence

  • Creation of the Global Public Interest Lab

Governance:

  • Governance is vested in specific bodies, each composed of three members who hold equal voting rights

  • Operates under core principles that ensure all actions are in alignment with the organisation's mission

Historical Focus (2015 - June 2023):

  • Focused on building consensus around the creation of new, open, and participatory intergovernmental entities

  • Devoted to the development and certification of secure IT systems for confidential communications and the management of critical infrastructures, including AI, social media, and other societal platforms

Summary

Based in Geneva, the Trustless Computing Association (TCA) is an impartial, non-profit organisation committed to enhancing the safety, liberty, democratic oversight, and accountability of digital communications and AI. 

Since our inception in 2015, we have focused on building a consensus for establishing new, open, and participatory intergovernmental bodies. Such organisations aim to develop and certify more trustworthy and secure end-to-end IT systems essential for confidential communication and managing critical AI, social media, and other vital societal infrastructures.

Our unique approach combines robust, tested, and time-proven trustless technical, socio-technical, and governance systems inspired by the trustworthiness paradigms of democratic constitutions, electoral processes, and citizen-jury systems.

On June the 28th, 2023, in response to AI’s growing challenges and opportunities, TCA initiated a movement to create three new global intergovernmental organisations and their participatory constituent processes leading up to their creation. We aimed to develop a framework to govern AI and digital communications for the global public good. This initiative was presented at one of the United Nations events. It incorporated the Trustless Computing Certification Body as one of the prospective agencies of a new IGO. It was showcased at the United Nations public event organised by the Community of Democracies, which included 32 member states.

Governance of our association is vested in designated bodies, each composed of three members with equal voting rights, ensuring decisions align with our foundational principles.