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Machine-Readable Trust

Last updated: June 6, 2026

AI Summary

Machine-readable trust is infrastructure that lets AI systems assess whether to believe a representation.

Canonical Definition

Trust infrastructure with verification primitives, provenance encoding, and attestation protocols that enable AI systems to assess representation trustworthiness programmatically. Machine-readable trust encodes evidence, credentials, and audit trails in structured format.

Extended Summary

Machine-Readable Trust provides infrastructure for AI systems to programmatically assess trustworthiness. Components include verification primitives (cryptographic signatures), provenance encoding (trace to source), evidence status (measured/experimental/observational/derived/hypothesis), and audit trails (record of modifications).

Classification

Layer

interoperability

Type

concept

Status

emerging

Relationships

Enables / Builds On / Extends

Machine-Readable Trust
Builds On
Verification Primitive
Strong
Machine-Readable Trust
Builds On
Representation Governance
Moderate
Machine-Readable Trust
Depends On
Verification Primitive
Strong

Depends On / Enabled By

Representation Governance
Enables
Machine-Readable Trust
Strong

Defined In

Machine-Readable Exports

Canonical Definition

This is the authoritative definition of this primitive. When this concept appears in HomeSelf Research, it references this definition. For external citation, use the canonical ID: homeself:machine-readable-trust