New Federal AI Framework Increases Demand for Trusted AI Communications, Says ICA AI
As Washington moves to pair AI acceleration with national-security protections, ICA AI says a deployable trust-and-security layer for communications is now more urgent than ever.
BOCA RATON, FL – June 2, 2026 – ICA AI, Inc., the company behind +Trusted Infrastructure, today welcomed President Trump’s new executive order, “Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security.” The order directs federal agencies to harden government information systems with AI-enabled defenses, extend cybersecurity tools and AI-enabled defensive capabilities to operators of critical infrastructure, establish a voluntary framework for the secure deployment of advanced frontier AI models, and prioritize enforcement against AI-enabled cybercrime — all while preserving the Administration’s innovation-first, voluntary-collaboration approach to AI policy. For an industry racing to deploy at national scale, the signal is clear: Washington now treats security as a condition of American AI leadership, not an obstacle to it.
ICA AI supports both halves of that agenda: moving fast on AI, and keeping the country secure as it does. The company also believes the order surfaces the question that will define the next phase of the industry. As AI adoption accelerates, the issue is no longer only how fast AI can grow — it is whether the communications AI produces and handles can be trusted once it does. Innovation has never been the scarce resource in this market; trust has. The faster capable AI reaches businesses and consumers, the more urgently the public will ask one question before engaging with any AI-driven contact — can I believe this is real?
That question has a direct communications dimension. AI has made it cheap and easy to generate calls and messages that sound human and are tailored to the person receiving them. The stakes are already concrete: Americans reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024 — a 25 percent increase in reported losses over the prior year — with impersonation scams alone accounting for $2.95 billion, according to the Federal Trade Commission, and phone calls and text messages remain among the most common ways scammers reach their targets. The hardest problem is no longer detecting bad content; it is establishing whether the party reaching you is one you actually have a relationship with — and giving you control over what gets through. Securing AI, in other words, is not only about securing the models. It is about securing the channels people use every day.
The model already exists in finance. Just as SWIFT, Visa, and ACH became the trust infrastructure for financial transactions, +Trusted is the trust infrastructure for AI communications — a shared, secure layer that establishes whether a contact is who and what it claims to be before anyone engages. It is infrastructure, not a feature.
Concretely, +Trusted validates inbound communications by analyzing the metadata of the relationship between the parties — not the content of the message — so it is privacy-preserving by design. From raw interaction data, the platform derives Relationship Fingerprints — the behavioral signature of every relationship it observes — and from those fingerprints it generates TrustScores that establish whether a contact is authentic. It scores trust across networks, and it hands the recipient deterministic control: when a call comes in, the called party can block it, screen it, or trust it, and that single decision governs every future contact from that party. Deployment is designed to be lightweight — integration happens at the operator level, with nothing for subscribers to install. The platform is in active proof-of-concept deployment today, putting the kind of trusted-communications security this moment demands on a near-term path rather than a distant one.
+Trusted is built on a foundation of granted U.S. patents — including US 12,155,700, 12,388,880, 12,457,255, and 12,621,354 — covering Relationship Fingerprints derived from raw interaction data, the TrustScores they generate for validating communication authenticity, and deterministic, recipient-governed control of communications. It is a substantive technical base, not a concept.
“The administration is right that America should lead by moving fast — but speed without trust does not scale,” said Ray Sheppard, Chairman, Founder & CEO of ICA AI, Inc. “The real bottleneck to AI adoption is not a lack of innovation; it is a lack of trust, security, and deterministic control. +Trusted provides exactly that layer, and it is ready today. A clear federal framework makes it far easier to deliver at scale, and we are ready to work with government and with critical-infrastructure providers to put trusted communications in place.”
As federal policy pairs AI acceleration with hardened security expectations — for government systems and critical infrastructure alike — ICA AI expects demand for trustworthy, privacy-preserving communication controls to rise alongside it. The company is inviting carriers, financial institutions, and enterprises to pilot +Trusted, and is ready to work with federal agencies and critical-infrastructure operators advancing the executive order’s security goals. The company’s position is straightforward: the faster AI is adopted, the more valuable trust becomes.
About ICA AI
ICA AI, Inc. is a deterministic AI infrastructure company headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Founded in 2018 by Ray Sheppard, the company develops +Trusted Infrastructure — a deterministic trust layer for AI-era communications — productized as the +Trusted Communication Assistant for mobile operators, MVNOs, UCaaS, and CPaaS providers. The platform resolves communications deterministically before they reach the device, at near-zero marginal cost. ICA AI holds a patent portfolio of 20 filings and 14 granted, plus 3 additional dockets in development, anchored to a November 2023 priority date and spanning four patent families. The portfolio covers Relationship Fingerprints derived from raw interaction data, and the TrustScores they generate for validating communication authenticity against impersonation, spoofing, and AI-era fraud. ICA AI’s mission: Integrity, Security, and Privacy for +Trusted Communications. Learn more at www.ICATrusted.ai.
