AI Safety Requires a Third Pillar: A Seal of Trust

This record contains a canonical 1-page executive brief on AI governance originally published as part of the AI Law & Governance Briefing on LinkedIn. The document proposes a third pillar of AI safety—a Seal of Trust—complementing laws and regulation through market-scale accountability, traceability, and consumer agency. The content is uploaded verbatim as a fixed PDF to establish persistent identification, citation, and public priority via DOI.