Compressed but Intact: Opacity-Induced Trust Compression and the Limits of Institutional Signaling in AI Markets

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Brief Overview

AI integration in products generates structural opacity that compresses trust differentials across institutional and country-of-origin cues. Even strong AI governance fail to restore trust, suggesting a structural limit on institutional signaling.

Author

• Hyunjoo Lee, University of Georgia