Trust Control

Trust Control

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.

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July 21, 2026 9 mins

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. Give it a tr...

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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 model...

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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 s...

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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 losing control of...
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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 measuring info...
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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 trustworthiness through a computational trust approach deemed her work "invalid" and exposed the downsides of technical trust approaches that rei...
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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 measures needed b...
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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; digitized audio manipulation; more contemplation and articulation; r...
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