Announcement: Three New Working Groups for Trust in the Age of AI
15 SEPT 2025 | Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust
First Person Project : Establishing Trust in Personal AI Agents
13-14 SEPT 2025 | GOSIM 2025, Hangzhou
First Person Identity System for Open Source
AUG 2025 | Open Source Summit, Amsterdam
As a followup to Jim Zemlin’s call to action at the LF Member Summit earlier this year, the need for a decentralized First Person developer ID system is one of the things we can do in the open source infrastructure level, i.e. the fundamental ways of practice that we know as open source, to meet this challenge. In this session, we will examine the issues, discuss the First Person Project and solution approaches, and update the community its progress.
The First Person Project: Redefining Digital Identity in an AI-Dominated World
3 JUL 2025 | Daniel Glinz | Medium
“Among the most compelling solutions emerging from these discussions is the First Person Project, which offers a groundbreaking approach to solving the “proof-of-personhood” challenge in our increasingly AI-dominated digital landscape.”
Establishing First Person Digital Trust
10 APR 2025 | Phil Windley’s Technometria Blog
Key signing parties attempted to establish decentralized trust but they ultimately failed due to poor usability, lack of incentives, and shallow trust models. Verifiable Relationship Credentials (VRCs) provide a modern, peer-to-peer approach that enables actionable, contextual trust built on decentralized identifiers, and secure messaging. First-person identity emerges from direct connections that form relationships, mutual authentication, and portable, verifiable trust.
Trust and the Open Source Supply Chain
18 MAR 2025 | Linux Foundation Member Summit 2025
In his keynote address, CEO Jim Zemlin talks about how the First Person Project will help Linux prevent the types of open source malware injection attacks the kernel project experienced.
Special Network Effects of
Ayra Network Credentials
JAN 2025 | Ayra Association White Paper
The mission of the Ayra (eye-rah) Trust Network is to enable global interoperability of verifiable data—especially verifiable digital credentials—across digital trust ecosystems of any size, type, or location.