You've probably felt it already - the slope under your feet. At first, AI looks like a set of optional tools (a bit of autocomplete, a bit of search, a bit of "help"). But the real shift isn't better answers. It's when the interface layer thickens enough that you stop consulting systems - and start inhabiting them. A world where your intake is summarised, your choices are pre-shaped, and verification quietly collapses under the weight of "too much". The debate doesn't end because we resolved it. It ends because the technology became embedded enough to route around hesitation.

The TrustIndex exists to track that shift (not the hype cycle, not the launch theatre). It's an instrument panel for the emerging interface layer - measuring where autonomy is running further, where reality is getting more mediated, where fidelity is becoming convincing enough to matter, and where transparency, portability, and equality are either being engineered in (or quietly traded away). If you want the full frame (the Cocoon, GEO, the rerouting of persuasion, and why trust becomes the only stable currency left) the vision post below is the foundation.