Research-driven writing on what trusting AI without scrutiny is doing to us — to how we reason, defer, and decide.
The conversation about AI splits into two: blind optimism or existential fear. But there is a more urgent space in between. This publication looks at AI trust through research, through behavior, and through the experience of living inside these systems while they are still being built.
The yes-man in the machine is agreeable by design, opaque by architecture, and indispensable by habit. Whether the trust we have placed in it reflects something AI has genuinely earned — or something we have gradually lost the capacity to question — is a problem worth taking seriously.
Every piece grounded in peer-reviewed studies, primary sources, and original analysis.
Written for curious people, not specialists. No jargon walls. No fear-mongering.
No sponsors shaping what gets covered. No algorithmic pressure to publish on a schedule.
* Intelligent.com survey of 801 students, May 2023. Cited in "The Yes-Man in the Machine."
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A frontier is the edge of known territory. Trust is the currency that moves across that frontier. That is exactly where we are with AI right now.
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