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Product demo videos, releases and notes from the work — the latest from validant.ai, in order.

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14 June 2026

When a Model Becomes a Munition

A frontier AI model was switched off worldwide by a single government letter. Reading the June 2026 shutdown through the three-body picture of digital trust: how the kill switch stopped being a metaphor, why the most governable lab was governed least carefully of all, and what single-vendor, single-jurisdiction dependence now costs a board.

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11 June 2026

Agents Will Act for Us. Who Vouches for Them?

When agents start acting for us, trust moves from outputs to actors. Reading Michael Casey’s case for proof of control alongside our three-body picture of digital trust: where convenience quietly pulls authority toward a few global platforms, how validant.ai answers it, and a closed beta for scientific validation opening 26 July 2026.

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5 June 2026

Digital Trust Is an Orbit, Not a Pillar

Trust is not one more pillar to stack. It is the orbit three bodies trace together: the model, the person and the organisation. Why the three-body problem is the honest metaphor for trustworthy AI, and how to tell where you are in the orbit.

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30 May 2026

Two Views of One Decision: Trustworthy and Explainable AI in Practice at HSLU

Notes from a Lucerne specialists course on Trustworthy and Explainable AI, and what it confirms about the Validant.ai approach.

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27 May 2026

The Wrong Question, Asked at Scale

A landmark study of 4 million job applications shows how AI hiring tools hide their bias, why one rejection can become rejection everywhere, and why independent, position-level assessment is no longer optional.

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26 May 2026

No System Has Ever Been Fair

What four breakout sessions, one fairness tool demo, and 50+ years of collective experience taught us about fairness in AI, at the Trustworthy AI Circle.

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Still frame from the new validant.ai product demo videos: the Pulse audit view in motion.UpdatesWatch preview
22 May 2026

Two new demo videos: see Pulse run an audit, and the Modules behind every verdict

We recorded the platform in motion — a full fairness audit start to finish, and the depth behind every result.

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Two near-identical cleaning sponges on a retail shelf: the male-coded “Scrub Daddy” priced higher than the female-coded “Scrub Mommy”, which is sold as a cheaper variant of the same brand, with the caption “Trust in an AI system begins the moment its biases stop hiding.”ResearchOpen to read
21 May 2026

Bias is the Foundation

Why every fairness claim begins with a bias diagnosis, and why skipping it breaks everything downstream.

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2 May 2026

Inside Trust Signal: the weekly newsletter our AI team writes itself

Every Tuesday, an eight-agent AI team scouts, scores and drafts the week in AI trust and fairness. Here's how it works — and how to get it.

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