P23 · CASE 0016
What Makes a Source Trustworthy?
Trustworthiness is claim-specific, time-sensitive and revisable. Inspect evidence access, method, provenance, incentives, corroboration, uncertainty and correction behavior.
Evidence before certainty
Observe the question. Inspect the evidence.
CP1 Observatory is an evidence-governed research and publishing system. This controlled staging deployment demonstrates structure and accessibility. It is not an authorized public release.
Wave 1 cases
P20 · CASE 0013
Can We Trust AI-Generated Answers?
AI answers can be useful, but they should not be trusted by default. Reliance must be proportional to the task, evidence and consequences.
P22 · CASE 0015
How Can We Tell If Digital Media Is Real?
No single detector, watermark or metadata field proves authenticity. Verification requires source identity, original asset, provenance, context, forensics and independent corroboration.
P10 · CASE 0003
What Is Consciousness?
Consciousness is provisionally defined as the presence of subjective experience. Science maps reports, behavior and neural conditions, but no accepted mechanism fully explains experience.
P16 · CASE 0009
Are We Alone in the Universe?
Earth remains the only confirmed inhabited world. Habitable environments and candidate biosignatures justify systematic search but do not yet establish extraterrestrial life or technology.
Controlled staging only. No analytics, forms, accounts, data collection or commercial activation are present.