
Chief Scientist
Chief Scientist: Slava Tykhonov, CODATA Paris, May 2026
<p>Slava Tikhonov, Head of AI at CODATA, joins Alexy Khrabrov in Paris to discuss the semantic layer needed for reliable AI.</p><p><br></p><p>Video</p><p><br></p><p>Blog</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Topics: CODATA, reliable AI...

