AI Trust Council names Hema Dey vice chair

The AI Trust Council has named Hema Dey vice chair to help advance digital trust, transparency and accountability as deepfakes and AI-assisted deception spread. The appointment puts a Forbes-recognized AI leader at the center of efforts to make authorship, provenance and manipulation easier to verify.

Why it matters: - The AI Trust Council is putting a public-facing trust advocate into a leadership role as AI-generated fraud, manipulated media and deepfakes become cheaper and more convincing. - The council’s focus is on proving who made what, which is becoming a safety and accountability issue for governments, businesses and users. - TIP is available now for enterprises to integrate, and the open specification is public at the protocol repository.

What happened: - The AI Trust Council named Hema Dey its vice chair. - Dey is founder and CEO of Iffel International and is known as “The AI Translator.” - Forbes named Dey in 2025 as one of the Top 5 AI Leaders bringing AI to everyone. - Dey had already been advising the council since July 2026. - The council is chaired by Ross Thorpe, CEO of the human-only social platform Rooverse. - The council also granted Dey the title Vice Chairlady, framing the role as stewardship of people rather than corporate oversight.

The details: - Dey describes her approach as Team Human x Team AI, meaning human judgment and AI capability working together with people in charge. - Dey said the role is about making digital trust “transparent, verifiable and accessible to everyone.” - Dey told governments and frontier AI companies that “Trust is” now scarcer than intelligence. - Dey said the companies and countries that can prove who made what will lead the AI era. - Dey said nobody should have to take a platform’s word for who made something and that people should be able to see it for themselves. - Dinesh Mendhe, founder of The AI Lab and inventor of TIP, said the goal is to build both the technology and the standards and governance that make trust verifiable. - Mendhe said Dey brings the experience and perspective needed to make the ideas practical and accessible. - Thorpe said Dey’s three decades of experience helping businesses explain technology gives the council a bridge between AI builders and the people living with the technology. - Dr. Sofia Martinez, CEO of The AI Lab, said Dey’s work through the AI Translator Academy helps young people build confidence and navigate a changing job market.

Between the lines: - The appointment aligns with a broader push for transparency in AI governance. - Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, released May 25, 2026, argued that technology must serve human dignity and that power over AI should be shared. - The European Union’s AI Act requires disclosure of AI-generated and manipulated content. - The timing also follows what CNBC and Axios have called “Black October,” a wave of AI-assisted cyber incidents last month. - The council is positioning provenance and disclosure as practical defenses against deception rather than as abstract policy goals.

What the protocol does: - TIP records who created a piece of work, when it was published, whether a person, AI, or both made it, and whether it has changed since. - TIP creates a signed record that cannot be quietly altered. - TIP applies to documents, films and podcasts, among other forms of content. - The Trust Identity Protocol governs the council’s work on digital trust. - The council gives five constituencies equal voice: Creators, Institutions, Publishers, Operators and Partners.

What's next: - The AI Trust Council will continue governing TIP and expanding its trust framework. - Enterprises can begin integrating TIP now. - Members of the council are listed at the council member directory. - The AI Lab says it also publishes TIP, operates the AI Trust Registry and runs the Global Seal of Trust certification program for AI systems. - Dey will likely serve as a visible bridge between technical governance and public trust messaging as adoption grows.

The bottom line: - The AI Trust Council is betting that the next big AI advantage will not be model power alone, but the ability to prove provenance, authorship and integrity in public view.