Building ZK-Powered AI Guardrails with Wyatt Benno

About this episode

The episode discusses the intersection of zero-knowledge technology and AI with Wyatt Benno from ICME Labs.

In this episode, Anna and Nico chat with Wyatt Benno , technical founder of ICME Labs . They trace Wyatt’s start into ZK in the ZKHack Discord and Justin Thaler’s study group before diving into ICME’s early work on folding schemes, local proving, and NovaNet. The conversation then shifts to ICME’s work at the intersection of AI and ZK. Wyatt introduces ICMEPreflight, a ZK-based guardrail tool for AI. They then explore how succinct verification and privacy-preserving proofs can help secure agentic commerce and provide stronger guarantees than existing guardrail approaches. They also discuss Jolt Atlas, ICME’s zero-knowledge machine learning framework, the connections between ZK and AI and the challenges of scaling ZKML. Finally, Wyatt encourages future advances in ZKML that could unlock privacy and verifiability in AI systems.   Related Links ICME Labs Nova: Recursive Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Folding Schemes (2022) Jolt Atlas: Verifiable Inference via Lookup Arguments in Zero Knowledge (2026) ZK Podcast: Is ZK dead? Or has it just begun? with the ZK Pod co-hosts ZK Podcast: Isogenies with Luca De Feo ZK Podcast: How ZK inspired AI Watermarking with Miranda Christ Neo…

People in this episode

Hosts: Anna, Nico

Guest: Wyatt Benno

Topics covered

• Zero-Knowledge
• AI
• Guardrails
• Privacy
• Machine Learning
• Verification

Keywords

• Zero-Knowledge
• AI Guardrails
• ICME Labs
• ZKML
• Privacy
• Verification
• Machine Learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ICME Labs, ZKHack, Justin Thaler, ICMEPreflight, Jolt Atlas, Lurk Labs, zkSecurity

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