ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Trust Control is a documentary podcast series about the weird yet surprisingly expansive world of trust measurement from investigative journalist and researcher Kate Kaye. Based on nearly a year of deep research and interviews with a wide variety of sources, the show takes listeners on a journey from the post-World War II Cold War period into the early days of the Internet through to today's agentic AI era. Trust – how it is measured, by whom and for what purposes – is the thread that carries us along throughout. Episodes dig into measurement of trust in AI and automation; media, news and information trustworthiness; the emerging realm of human and AI agent "worker" trust scoring, U.S. military and corporate management funding and influence in trust measurement, and more. Part historical documentary, part philosophical analysis, part provocative (and admittedly hokey) satire, Trust Control explores an emerging trust paradigm happening just below the surface of our digital lives… bubbling up to the surface of our real ones.
Hosts:
Average audio length:
43 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
8 episodes
since July 21, 2026
serial
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
OLDEST EPISODE 🔗
TRUST CONTROL: Trust is no longer a feeling. 0.0 The Welcome to Trust Control Episode
This is the Trust Control show trailer. You'll hear about what's in each full-length episode and hear some examples of the voices and sometimes silly satire featured throughout the show. It's a short episode. Giv…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
TRUST CONTROL: Trust is no longer a feeling. 1.0 The Intro Episode
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 "computatio…
TRUST CONTROL: Trust is no longer a feeling. 2.0 The Measuring Trust in AI and Automation Episode
When trust researcher Gale Lucas measured construction workers' trust in a demolition robot they had to use on the job site, the study had support from the demolition robot's manufacturer and got fund…
TRUST CONTROL: Trust is no longer a feeling. 3.0 The History (and Residue) of Measuring Trust in AI Episode 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? Corporate managers worried they were l…
TRUST CONTROL: Trust is no longer a feeling. 4.0 The Measuring Trustworthiness of Media Episode (Part One: Propaganda and Journalism's Trust Assumptions) During World War II, the time Carl I. Hovland spent evaluating the effects of U.S. propaganda films on U.S. Army recruits inspired his research m…
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 trustworthines…
TRUST CONTROL: Trust is no longer a feeling.6.0 The New Trust Paradigm Episode: Scoring Trustworthiness of Human and AI Agent "Workers" It's starting to happen at work and inside a blockchain-based online dispute resolution platform: A new trust paradigm is unfolding in which the technical trust me…
Trust Control is the culmination of more than 10 months of human, non-AI assisted exploration and process. It is the product of deep research rabbit hole digging; journalistic interviews; idea organizing; contemplation and articulation; writing and re-writing; re-re-writing; microphone jabber; digi…
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