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6 pieces tagged “Trust & Distrust.”
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.
My first real Air Force assignment was a console in a windowless building where “good enough, we still got there” was never a sentence anyone said. What it taught me about speed, creativity, and the failures you can't hear.
My doctoral model explained why people advocate for generative AI. The human-in-the-loop assumption underneath it is exactly what autonomous agents remove — and when you remove it, two of my cleanest results invert.
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.
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.
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.