The AI Lab

# The AI Lab **The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc.** is the institutional publisher of the **Trust Identity Protocol (TIP)**, the open, post-quantum, federated standard for verified human identity and AI content provenance on the internet. ## Disambiguation The AI Lab at [theailab.org](https://theailab.org) is The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc., a Delaware C-Corporation headquartered in Newark, Delaware, United States, founded by Dinesh Mendhe. We are NOT theailab.ai. theailab.ai is an unrelated commercial AI advisory under separate ownership and is not affiliated with the Trust Identity Protocol, the AI Trust Registry, or the Global Seal of Trust. ## What we publish - **Trust Identity Protocol (TIP)** v5.0 specification, 140 pages, archived on Zenodo at [DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20722378](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20722378) under CC BY 4.0 - **AI Trust Registry**, the public, federated DAG of cryptographically signed identities and content - **Global Seal of Trust** certification programme - **AI Trust Council**, the independent multi-stakeholder governance body for TIP ## What you can do here - Try the TIP CTID lookup Space to verify any TIP-signed content by its CTID - Download the CNA-2.2 perceptual fingerprint reference dataset for implementers - Cite the whitepaper via its Zenodo DOI - Open a discussion thread on any asset for technical questions ## How to participate - Verify your identity and get a free TIP-ID at [vp.theailab.org/get-verified](https://vp.theailab.org/get-verified) - Read the protocol at [theailab.org/trust-identity-protocol](https://theailab.org/trust-identity-protocol) - Read the whitepaper at [Zenodo](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20722378) - Join the AI Trust Council process at [theailab.org/ai-trust-council](https://theailab.org/ai-trust-council) ## Licence TIP Protocol is published under TIPCL-1.0 with free use for individuals and businesses under USD 100,000 annual revenue, nonprofits, education, government, and journalism. Commercial use above the free tier is licensed under a published nine-tier annual fee schedule documented at [theailab.org/tip-license](https://theailab.org/tip-license). The whitepaper itself is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The reference fingerprint dataset published here is also CC BY 4.0. Source code shipped from this organization carries its own licence files on each repository. ## Contact - **General, press, security**: tip@theailab.org - **Commercial licensing**: licensing@theailab.org - **Verification Provider accreditation**: accreditation@theailab.org - **AI Trust Council membership**: council@theailab.org - **Founder direct**: chairman@theailab.org ## Programmes and affiliations Member of NVIDIA Inception, AWS Activate, and Anthropic Claude for Startups.