Trust Control is the culmination of more than 10 months of human, non-AI assisted exploration and process. The project took many twists and turns along the way. In this episode, you’ll hear a bit about Trust Control creator Kate Kaye’s process and some of the overarching ideas that emerged from inside her (humble, fallible and… — read more

AI agents like Eudamon and Reefwatcher (the bots from Trust Control Ep. 1.0) require quantified, computational, binary and zero trust-based measurements and scores to know whether or not they can trust other agents to exchange data or collaborate on tasks. But now the lines are blurring. A new trust paradigm is unfolding in which the… — read more

When Brooklyn, New York photographer and entrepreneur Tiffany Walling McGarity crafted stunning portraits of friends using the very old tintype method, she wanted to preserve them, and the provenance of the images, in digital form. But she discovered that a technical method promising trustworthiness through a computational trust approach deemed her work “invalid” and exposed… — read more

The time Carl I. Hovland spent evaluating the effects of U.S. propaganda films on recruits in the Army during World War II inspired his work on information and communication trustworthiness and helped propel the field. Since that time, people have designed all sorts of methods and models for measuring trustworthiness of media and information. From… — read more

Roger C. Mayer and his fellow researchers introduced an influential trust model in 1995 in the Academy of Management Review. The impetus for their work? They were responding to concerns among corporate managers worried that they were losing control of workers. Little did they know that decades later their ABI (Ability, Benevolence, and Integrity) trust… — read more

When trust researcher Gale Lucas measured construction worker trust in a demolition robot they had to use at work, the study had support from the robot’s manufacturer, and the study was funded by the U.S. Army Research Office. But why? Who is trust measurement done for, and who is it done – to? In this… — read more

When self-described “trust scientist” Stephen Marsh first introduced the concept of mathematically modeling and computing trust in an influential 1994 thesis paper, he had an inkling that computerized agents would need “computational trust.” But back then did the quirky “nano-farmer” ever envision that decades later AI agents with funny names like Eudamon and Reefwatcher would… — read more

This is the Trust Control show trailer. You’ll hear about what’s in each episode, along with some examples of the voices and sometimes silly satire featured throughout the show. It’s a short episode. Give it a try! — read more