AI and Trust; B Schneier
“I trusted a lot today…
…Because the point of government is to create social trust. I started this talk by explaining the importance of trust in society, and how interpersonal trust doesn’t scale to larger groups. That other, impersonal kind of trust—social trust, reliability and predictability—is what governments create. To the extent a government improves the overall trust in society, it succeeds. And to the extent a government doesn’t, it fails.”