{"product_id":"the-trust-deficit-how-blockchain-fixes-the-ai-accountability-crisis-9798195295288","title":"The Trust Deficit: How Blockchain Fixes the AI Accountability Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nikos Bogonikolos\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Industries - Computers \u0026amp; Information Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAI is making decisions that affect millions of people. Nobody can prove how.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo audit trail. No verifiable record. No way for regulators, auditors, or affected individuals to confirm that the AI system governing their loan application, medical diagnosis, or criminal risk score was built, evaluated, and deployed as claimed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not an engineering failure. It is an architecture failure - and blockchain is the missing piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Trust Deficit\u003c\/b\u003e provides the first comprehensive blueprint for using blockchain infrastructure to solve the AI accountability crisis. Written by Dr. Nikos Bogonikolos - Ph.D. in Mathematics (AI \u0026amp; Economy), blockchain pioneer since 2013, and holder of pioneer patents in AI and blockchain across the EU and USA - this book goes beyond principles to deliver the technical architecture, regulatory roadmap, and implementation guidance that practitioners actually need.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside this book: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy AI governance keeps failing - and why existing frameworks cannot fix it without verifiable evidence infrastructure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow cryptographic hashing, smart contracts, verifiable credentials, and zero-knowledge proofs create tamper-evident AI accountability \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe hybrid architecture principle - evidence on-chain, computation off-chain - that every production deployment has independently converged on\u003cp\u003eEight real-world case studies: Ocean Protocol, Bittensor, OriginTrail, Gensyn, Numerai, Chainlink, and others building governance infrastructure in production\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, and GDPR - decoded article by article, with blockchain's specific contribution to each compliance obligation \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePost-quantum cryptography: why FIPS 203, 204, and 205 matter for governance infrastructure built to last decades\u003cp\u003eA five-phase implementation roadmap - from initial assessment through ecosystem leadership - calibrated for organizations at any starting point\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho this book is for: \u003c\/b\u003e Chief Technology Officers and AI leaders who need to build compliance infrastructure. Blockchain architects designing enterprise governance systems. AI ethics and compliance officers translating regulatory obligations into technical requirements. ML engineers integrating governance into training and deployment pipelines. Regulators and policymakers designing accountability frameworks that can actually be verified.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe evidence age of artificial intelligence has begun. The organizations that build verifiable accountability infrastructure now will define the responsible AI landscape for the decade ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The essential framework for every organization deploying AI at scale - rigorous, timely, and actionable.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47882892935319,"sku":"9798195295288","price":2510.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798195295288.webp?v=1781097833","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-trust-deficit-how-blockchain-fixes-the-ai-accountability-crisis-9798195295288","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}