Gemini 3 Pro scores 69% trust in blinded testing up from 16% for Gemini 2.5: The case for evaluating AI on real-world trust, not academic benchmarks

Google's Gemini 3 has achieved a significant breakthrough in AI evaluation by topping a vendor-neutral, real-world benchmark developed by Prolific, which assesses models based on user trust, ethics, safety, and practical performance across diverse scenarios. Unlike traditional academic benchmarks, this evaluation involved 26,000 users in blind testing, revealing that Gemini 3's trust score surged from 16% to 69%, making it the leader in trust, ethics, and safety across multiple demographic groups. The comprehensive assessment ranked Gemini 3 first in three of four key categoriesperformance and reasoning, interaction and adaptiveness