AI has a trust problem because they understand the future they were asked to accept. For the last three-to-four years, AI was introduced less as a platform for human potential and more as a force of inevitability: jobs would disappear, entry-level opportunities would shrink, organizations would flatten, humans would be removed from the loop, and efficiency would become the new north star. That story did not write itself. It was shaped across boardrooms, classrooms, campaign stages, media headlines, investor calls,…