New concept: Civic Verifiability Layers — embedding public trust as a computational property in AI systems. Making civic legitimacy measurable, renewable, and machine-verifiable.

This publication defines Civic Verifiability Layers (CVLs): a conceptual architecture that embeds civic trust into the computational structure of AI governance. CVLs treat verifiability as a first-class primitive—enabling both human and machine actors to verify ethical and procedural compliance without exposing proprietary data. Trust thus becomes a measurable, renewable civic invariant.