Let me tell you—when someone like @AndrewFATHOM says “I want to make this idea you’ve been working on for 10 years a thing” you’ve hit the jackpot. It’s great to have a concrete and rapidly implementable model ready to go as things have gotten more and more challenging for AI governance
At @ashbyworkshops in 2025, I turned to @ghadfield and said, "I want to do regulatory markets" — with little idea what that meant. Over the following months, we began building a model of governance with @deanwball and others, and quickly saw that it could meet the regulatory, technical, and political demands of the moment. We first called it MROs — Multi-stakeholder Regulatory Organizations, a riff on Self-Regulatory Organizations. Terrible name. The team at @Fathom_org spent the next stretch rebranding it to Independent Verification Organizations (IVOs). We were never the only people working on independent verification, and I won't pretend otherwise. But I'm proud of what this team did to socialize IVOs, mature the idea, and make the case for why it needs to be a part of AI governance. Over the past few months, IVOs have gone mainstream — and I'm excited for the next chapter of this debate.
