A national opportunity to help shape the future of trustworthy artificial intelligence — through research, policy, critical infrastructure resilience, workforce development, and public-interest innovation.
The prospectus is shared personally during the founding cohort so each partner receives a short introduction from the partnerships lead. The Coalition is a public statement of alignment — no financial commitment required.
Artificial intelligence is being deployed into public benefits, critical infrastructure, healthcare, education, and national security faster than the institutions overseeing it can keep up. The Trustworthy AI Initiative was formed to close that gap — with independent evidence, published standards, and durable public infrastructure.
Federal policy, state legislatures, foundations, and industry are converging on the same requirements: transparency, evaluation, human oversight, and public accountability. The country needs a neutral institution to translate those requirements into a reusable standard and body of evidence.
No single foundation, agency, corporation, or university can produce this alone. Trustworthy AI infrastructure requires philanthropic anchor capital, public-sector adoption, industry participation, and academic rigor — held together by an independent civic institution.
Founding partners help shape governance, priorities, and the standards the sector will converge on. Their support during the formative years is what makes the Initiative independent, durable, and citable for the decade ahead.
Underwrite the standards, benchmarks, and evidence the field organizes around.
Support the AI Resilience Score™ and the Observatory across critical infrastructure sectors.
Fund the implementation guides, procurement toolkits, and briefings public-sector leaders reuse.
Help set the standard that lets responsible builders compete on demonstrated trust.
Underwrite credentials, applied learning, and a more diverse pipeline of oversight practitioners.
Convene alongside foundations, agencies, industry, and academia inside working groups and the Summit.
Publish and cite alongside a recognized public-interest institution rather than in isolation.
Anchor an institution structurally independent from the firms it evaluates.
Every founding partner enters through a clearly defined participation path with a dedicated point of contact.
Philanthropic capital anchoring independent public-interest AI infrastructure.
Underwriting the flagship programs that define the standard the sector converges on.
Collaboration on pilots, standards adoption, and workforce readiness. Participation does not imply endorsement or regulatory authority.
Joint research, faculty collaboration, student engagement, and shared publications.
Sector operators helping benchmark resilience for the systems the public depends on.
Benefits emphasize collaboration and access, not governance authority or influence over independent findings.
Confidential briefings from Initiative leadership on findings, roadmap, and sector risk.
Pre-publication access to flagship reports, indexes, and Observatory outlooks.
Closed-door convenings with foundation, agency, and executive peers.
Seats in the working groups shaping benchmarks and reference audits.
Named advisory roles on programs your organization helps establish (subject to independence review).
Co-scoped pilots, reference implementations, and joint publications.
Named seats at the annual Trustworthy AI Summit and regional convenings.
Recognition on the Initiative site, prospectus, and program pages — subject to review and your preferences.
In place of fixed sponsorship levels, founding partners choose the area of impact and we scope commitments together.
Underwrite the National Critical Infrastructure AI Observatory™ — the Initiative's flagship national research program.
A durable, independent evidence base on AI risk and resilience across the sectors the public depends on.
Fund the benchmark that measures how resilient AI systems in critical infrastructure actually are.
A shared, citable measure that operators, regulators, and insurers can use in procurement and oversight.
Underwrite the annual Trustworthy AI Summit — the Initiative's cross-sector convening.
A neutral venue where foundations, agencies, industry, and researchers set the year's public-interest agenda.
Establish a named fellowship cohort in governance, ethics, resilience, or workforce.
A pipeline of practitioner-researchers with a public body of work tied to the Initiative's evidence base.
Fund a flagship report or national index in the Ethos Research Program™.
A yearly, comparable, publicly citable dataset the field organizes around.
Underwrite training, credentials, and applied learning for the trustworthy-AI workforce.
A larger, better-prepared bench of practitioners in governance, oversight, and evaluation roles.
Anchor a sector workstream — energy, water, healthcare, transportation, finance, or another CISA-designated sector.
Sector-specific benchmarks, reference audits, and playbooks operators can adopt.
Support students entering trustworthy-AI careers, with priority for underrepresented pathways.
A more diverse pipeline into public-interest AI research, oversight, and engineering roles.
Founding partners help move these existing programs from launch to recurring, national-scale operations.
Establishing the founding sector cohort, working groups, and reference audits across CISA-designated sectors.
Independent research program producing the annual report, quarterly outlooks, and incident analyses.
Implementation guides, procurement toolkit, and briefings for public-sector leaders adopting the standard.
The benchmark measuring how resilient AI in critical infrastructure actually is — building methodology and first cohort.
Cross-sector groups co-producing benchmarks, playbooks, and reference audits.
Eight recurring publications, including the National AI Accountability Index and Public Trust Barometer.
Practitioner credentials, applied learning, and open training materials.
The Initiative is moving through the stages below during the founding cohort. Partners entering now help shape the direction, governance posture, and priorities that later partners inherit.
Charter, governance, initial pillars, and founding partner cohort established.
Flagship reports, national indexes, and the Observatory move from launch to recurring cadence.
Federal agencies, foundations, and corporate partners co-produce standards and evidence.
Sector working groups, reference audits, and the AI Resilience Score™ operationalized across critical infrastructure.
A published, reused standard and evidence base cited by policymakers, procurers, and the public.
Technologies evolve. Companies rise and fall. Governments change.
But enduring institutions create the standards, evidence, and public trust that shape generations.
The Trustworthy AI Initiative™ exists to build that enduring infrastructure.
Founding Partners have a rare opportunity to help establish an independent institution whose standards, research, workforce programs, and public-interest evidence may guide policymakers, universities, businesses, and communities for decades.
This is not simply support for another program.
It is participation in building an institution whose greatest impact may be realized long after the founding cohort has concluded.
Every founding partner begins with a confidential executive briefing — not a contract. We'll review the roadmap, listen to your priorities, and identify where a partnership could meaningfully advance the public interest.
Large institutions often hesitate to commit funding immediately, but are willing to publicly align with a movement they believe in. The Founding Coalition gives your organization a first, no-cost way to stand with the Trustworthy AI Initiative — a simple statement: "We support trustworthy AI."
A public statement of alignment — no financial commitment required.
Takes 90 seconds. No financial commitment.