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Legitimacy
5 pieces tagged “Legitimacy.”
McKinsey's Rewired is written for the enterprise using the platform. If you are the platform — the software company whose product is the transformation infrastructure your clients run on — a different sequence applies.
On the Seam: Working Drafts · July 2026
If distrust is what wakes up under autonomy, comprehensibility is what puts it back to sleep. Cognitive legitimacy as the load-bearing wall of agent adoption — built into the architecture, not the slide deck.
On the Seam: Working Drafts · Part 3 of a three-part series
Satya Nadella says AI companies have to earn society's permission. He's right — but permission isn't won by building trust. It's won by giving distrust nothing to grip.
Essay · June 2026
Why people champion AI they don't fully trust. Three years and 715 survey responses showing trust and distrust are two separate systems — and only one reliably predicts advocacy.
Doctoral Dissertation · Drexel University DBA · 2025
What makes people trust AI before they've had time to think. The legitimacy that builds swift trust shifts entirely with what's at stake — same AI, different stakes, different logic.
Conference Paper · SEDSI 2025 · Best Track Paper Award