Defending Truth, Building Trust: An Information Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age Professor Thomas Patterson — Harvard Kennedy School
At Interop Tokyo 2026, Professor Thomas Patterson warned that the gravest threat of the AI age is not any single deepfake, but the gradual erosion of public trust. His answer is a governance-driven framework in which AI assists human judgment rather than replacing it — built on human-in-the-loop oversight, nuanced trust ratings in place of blunt true-or-false labels, and transparent guardrails that protect against both deception and censorship. AI can speed our response, he concluded — but only good governance can keep truth trustworthy. It is precisely this conviction that animates the AIWS Information Trust Infrastructure — a founding pillar of the AIWS Trust Order proclaimed in the Tokyo Compact.
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