Trust Control

by Kate Kaye

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.

Latest episodes

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7.0 The Trust IS a Feeling (and Closing Thoughts) Episode

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; journal

Jul 21
12 min

6.0 The New Trust Paradigm Episode: Scoring Trustworthiness of Human and AI Agent "Workers"

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 wo

Jul 21
57 min

5.0 The Measuring Trustworthiness of Media Episode (Part Two: The Limits of Computational Trust)

When Brooklyn, New York photographer and entrepreneur Tiffany Walling McGarity crafted stunning portraits of friends using the very old tintype method, she wanted to pres

Jul 21
39 min

4.0 The Measuring Trustworthiness of Media Episode (Part One: Propaganda and Journalism's Trust Assumptions)

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 Wo

Jul 21
45 min

3.0 The History (and Residue) of Measuring Trust in AI Episode

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 i

Jul 21
1 h 08 min

2.0 The Measuring Trust in AI and Automation Episode

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' tru

Jul 21
50 min

1.0 The Intro Episode

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 mathematicall

Jul 21
1 h 03 min

0.0 The Welcome to Trust Control 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-l

Jul 21
9 min