Research
Five questions I keep returning to.
This work is organised around questions rather than disciplines. Anthropology, digital and economic anthropology, behavioural research and policy analysis are methods in service of the questions below — never the other way round.
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Theme 02
Digital Trust
Trust is treated here as a practice, not a score: something negotiated, withdrawn and repaired in relation to institutions long before any individual system is evaluated.
Current questions
- What is being trusted — the model, the institution deploying it, or the person presenting it?
- How is trust repaired after a system fails someone?
- Why does accuracy so often fail to produce confidence?
Projects
Future directions
A grounded framework for trust that institutions can use without reducing it to a survey item.
Reading
- Niklas Luhmann — Trust and PowerPolity, 2017 edition
- Onora O'Neill — A Question of TrustBBC Reith Lectures, 2002
- Shoshana Zuboff — The Age of Surveillance CapitalismPublicAffairs, 2019
Policy documents & grey literature
- Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of LawCouncil of Europe, 2024 — treaty text and explanatory report
- AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0)US National Institute of Standards and Technology, 2023 — governance and accountability guidance
- Public attitudes to AIAda Lovelace Institute, survey report
- Research ICT Africa — digital policy and data governance researchIndependent African policy research institute