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Banks, hospitals and factories refuse AI they cannot check. AI labs must invite external audits and accept binding commercial liability

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Dr Ruby Tong is a university innovator and technology strategist bridging academic research, deep tech commercialisation, and AI governance.

When the Magnificent Seven, America’s top tech companies, shed more than US$1 trillion in a single trading session, the usual question returned: is artificial intelligence (AI) a bubble? Yet as global headlines are transfixed by the personal and governance crises shaking Silicon Valley’s titan icons, that debate is already stale.

Separate technology from stock prices and a harder truth emerges: multitrillion-dollar empires cannot merely survive on founder mythology and self-policing. The public is asking who bears the risk, and who gets a say.

That shift mirrors the commercial wall stalling the industry. Banks, hospitals and factories refuse AI they cannot check and cannot trust. Adoption is not slow. It is blocked.

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