A number of global technology infrastructures have taken up the task of fostering cooperation among strangers on a planetary scale by providing various trust-related services, such as reputation management (platforms), trust minimization (blockchains), or the reduction of future uncertainties (AI systems).
Such development is a response to the lack of better institutional alternatives, and the failure of existing supranational frameworks to coordinate human cooperation across various geographic, cultural, linguistic, social, political, religious divisions.
Such technical trust infrastructures need to be trustworthy to fulfill their intended functions. Yet, it is clear that we cannot be confident in these technical trust production approaches.
Join the discussion with:
Esther Keymolen, philosopher, Tilburg University,
Aron Fischer, mathematician, Colony Project, and
Balazs Bodo, social scientist, University of Amsterdam!
We will discuss two topics:
- what are the technical / digital ways to produce trust among strangers in the digital society?
- what are the technical, legal, institutional preconditions of trustworthy technical trust producers?
I hope to set up an international, interdisciplinary, multistakeholder dialogue on technological trust production, mostly to facilitate research, via grant applications.
How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:I'll set up a panel, which will be operational even if no one shows up. If there is widespread interest, we will use interactive tools to map audience interests, expertise in advance, and use that to shape the discussion.
Balázs Bodó is an social scientist, associate professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the University of Amsterdam. His current research focus is on technology mediated trust.