Podcast: quantifying trust as a metric misses that it is a dynamic human relationship
jathansadowski · x · 2026-10-17
Machine Kills podcast episode 479, "Trust Doesn't Care About Your Feelings," features journalist Kate Kaye discussing the history and future of attempts to measure trust by turning it into a quantified, objective feature of the world, rather than treating it as a dynamic, affective relationship between people — a critique aimed at today's AI industry's metric obsession.
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