The next AI race will be fought over trust
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The next defensible moat in AI is less about raw capability and more about verifiable behavior—governance, auditability, and predictable failure modes. Operators should be instrumenting trust today: log every critical AI decision, define escalation paths, and make “can we prove what it did and why” a buying criterion.
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