Toward Trustworthy AI Systems: A Converged Architecture for Governance, Reliability, and Automated Testing in Enterprise Platforms
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https://doi.org/10.63282/3050-9246.IJETCSIT-V5I3P117Keywords:
Trustworthy AI, Enterprise AI, Governance, Reliability Engineering, Automated Testing, Mlops, Observability, AI AssuranceAbstract
Enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence has shifted from isolated prediction services toward deeply integrated platforms that influence workflows, customer interactions, compliance obligations, and operational resilience. This shift has created a practical challenge: organizations can no longer treat governance, system reliability, and software testing as separate disciplines. A model may be accurate in development but still fail in production because of data drift, weak controls, missing lineage, insufficient monitoring, or inadequate rollback mechanisms. This paper presents a converged architecture for trustworthy AI systems that unifies governance controls, reliability engineering, and automated testing into a single enterprise operating model. The proposed architecture is derived from prior work on trustworthy AI frameworks, lifecycle assurance, MLOps, AIOps, observability, and architecture-centered software governance. It organizes enterprise AI into five interoperable layers: policy and risk governance, data and feature integrity, model assurance, runtime observability, and continuous improvement. The paper also introduces a trust evidence loop in which policy artifacts, test outputs, telemetry, and post-deployment findings are continuously linked for auditability and operational learning. Rather than proposing trustworthiness as a static checklist, the paper treats it as a measurable systems property sustained through design-time and run-time evidence. The result is an architecture intended to improve reliability, accelerate compliant delivery, reduce hidden technical debt, and strengthen organizational confidence in AI-enabled enterprise platforms.
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