How do you make users trust an AI feature when money is involved?
I'm building an AI layer over Indian stock market news — it
scores each headline for how much it's likely to actually move
a stock. Launching on PH soon.
The hard part hasn't been the AI. It's been trust.
If my model says a headline is "high impact" and the stock
doesn't move, I've cost someone credibility — maybe money. So
I've been going back and forth on how much to show:
• Show the score only? Clean, but feels like a black box.
• Show the reasoning? More honest, but nobody reads paragraphs
while the market is open.
• Show confidence levels? Users seem to either ignore them or
over-read them.
I've landed on short reasoning + a visible "this is information,
not advice" boundary, but I'm not convinced it's right.
For anyone who's shipped AI features in a high-stakes domain
(health, legal, finance) — how did you handle this? Did you
expose the model's uncertainty, or did that just make people
trust it less?

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