Chief Scientist: Slava Tikhonov, Head of AI at CODATA, Paris

Slava Tikhonov, Head of AI at CODATA, joins Alexy Khrabrov in Paris to discuss the semantic layer needed for reliable AI. The conversation explores how standards such as Croissant, CDIF, DIDs, verifiable credentials, and ODRL can help AI systems find trusted data, understand provenance, enforce policies, and reduce non-determinism. Tikhonov explains how signed question-answer pairs, knowledge graphs, temporal versioning, and multilingual vocabularies can support reproducible AI for science, open compute, and enterprise deployments. Topics: CODATA, reliable AI, semantic layer, data provenance, Croissant, CDIF, DIDs, ODRL, verifiable credentials, knowledge graphs, AI agents, open compute, enterprise AI governance.