Dr. Tricia Wang

Global Tech Ethnographer
Dr. Tricia Wang photograph

Tricia Wang is the co-founder and CEO of Advanced AI Society, where she builds the open verification ecosystem for AI security and agentic governance. Long before RLHF made human feedback central to language models, Tricia pioneered enriching algorithmic models with deep qualitative context, coining "Thick Data" to solve the critical data input flaws of Big Data for leaders at Spotify, Google, and Procter & Gamble. Today, as autonomous AI agents create an urgent "Verifiability Gap," she is bridging it by deploying global standards like Proof-of-Control, now hosted by Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust. A sociologist, Fulbright Fellow, and NSF Fellow. She previously co-founded CRADL (an emerging tech lab built with WEF, exited via acquisition), and established digital labs in China and Peru. A keynoter across five continents for over 50 Fortune 500 C-suites, her TED Talk has over 2M views, and her work has been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, and Fortune. Tricia serves as a Global Expert on AI & Data at Singularity University and serves on the board of New Mexico Community Capital.