Issue Scenario: standardized AI trust scores decide procurement

Summary

One of NTT DATA's future scenarios for trustworthy intelligence has AI trust scores driving purchasing decisions. In this scenario, enterprises buy AI systems according to standardised trust metrics. The metrics would cover robustness, transparency, the risk of misuse and the integrity of provenance. Such scoring would turn trust from a vague promise into a comparable feature that vendors compete on. The report raises two main uncertainties, namely who would set global trust standards, whether ISO, governments or industry alliances, and whether scores could genuinely reflect risk or would be gamed. The answers would determine whether trust scores become a reliable market signal or a box-ticking exercise.