Every credential system has a moment of truth: who guards the gate, and what stops them from waving friends through? The AI Faculty's answer is structural: an advisory board that reviews every membership application against the published profile standards, with the authority to admit, decline, and remove.
What does the advisory board do?
- Application review: every membership application is assessed against the standards: credential verification, substantiation of claimed AI work, and specialty-depth evaluation
- Standards stewardship: the board owns the profile standards themselves, evolving the bar as the field and its credential-inflation problems evolve
- Ongoing review: member profiles are re-reviewed on cycle, and standards violations, stale records, unsubstantiated claims, are grounds for removal
- Specialty governance: anchor appointments in the specialty directories carry the board's explicit endorsement
Who serves on the board?
Board membership combines the AI Faculty's founding members with independent voices whose own credentials meet the standard they enforce; current board composition is listed below with each member's affiliation and role.
Why does buyer trust route through the board?
Because verification is expensive and buyers should not have to repeat it. When an event planner books through the speaker roster or an organization engages a specialist from the directory, the diligence a careful buyer would want has already been performed, documented, and put behind a named committee accountable for it.
Frequently asked questions
Can the board's decisions be appealed?
Declined applicants receive the basis for the decision and may reapply once the gap is addressed; the standards, not the mood of the room, govern.
Are board members compensated?
Governance terms, including compensation and conflict-of-interest rules, are documented internally; conflicts require recusal from the affected review.
How do I raise a concern about a member's claims?
Via the contact page; substantiated concerns trigger the ongoing-review process.