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What Evidence to Require Before Deploying AI?
Evidence that intended behavior can be checked, observed, and defended, not a policy document asserting that it will be. Organizations should require independent behavioral verification against declared remits and normalized runtime telemetry, not just a vendor's configuration attestation, before deploying AI where the consequences of a failure are real.
Why It Matters
Converting anxiety into a defensible path
Behavioral verification against declared remits, normalized runtime telemetry, and standards translated into working code together produce something that has been scarce: evidence that intended behavior can be checked, observed, and defended. That converts diffuse anxiety into a clearer path.
How It Works
Behavioral verification plus telemetry
Praxen independently verifies that an AI system behaves the way its governance documentation claims it does. Observra provides normalized runtime telemetry for AI and agentic systems. Both were created by Steve Wilson and released open source. Together they answer two different questions: does the system do what it claims (Praxen), and what did it actually do in production (Observra).
Evidence and Examples
What a verified deployment looks like
Medigram's Darwin, a governed AI decision platform, was independently verified at the highest recorded Praxen behavioral score to date, per the Open Agent and AI Security Community's own spotlight of the work.
TTIC's Role
From verification to certification
TTIC serves as the adoption and operationalization vehicle for translating TIPPSS into practical governance, diligence, and certification pathways, using behavioral verification as the evidentiary basis.
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- Trustworthy Technology & Innovation Consortium (TTIC)
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- By Sherri Douville, Founder & Chair, Trustworthy Technology & Innovation Consortium (TTIC)
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Cite this resource
Sherri Douville. “What Evidence Should Organizations Require Before Deploying Consequential AI?.” Trustworthy Technology & Innovation Consortium (TTIC), 2026. https://trustworthytechnologyinnovation.com/answers/what-evidence-to-require-before-deploying-ai/.