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AI leadership is built on trust.
The Digital Trust Council builds the global benchmarks for trustworthy AI, translating research into accountability standards the world can rely on.
Our Approach
Built for the people using AI, not the people selling it.
The Trust Index and DTC's LEED-style certification framework are shaped from the ground up: by the practitioners, policymakers, and everyday users who rely on AI systems, not by the companies that build them. That grassroots foundation is what keeps DTC's standards independent and credible.
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Trust Index
A trust label for AI.
The Trust Index aggregates scattered AI evaluations into one sourced, comparable view. It is built for the people who must decide whether to deploy or buy an AI system and defend that decision to a boss, a board, or a regulator. It provides no single, gameable score, only tiered, evidence-linked signals across the categories that matter.
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Research
59%
of Americans have little to no confidence in companies to develop and use AI responsibly.
Source: Pew Research Center, 2025
New Paper · July 2026
Closing the Trust Gap
A decade of responsible AI practice has not produced a market that rewards trustworthiness. Our new paper argues that closing this gap requires independent, outcome-oriented certification: evidence the public can inspect, modeled on what LEED established for buildings and SOC 2 established for security.
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