Our societies are necessarily based on trust, but how do we decide what institutions, people, and technologies to place our trust in? And why have we collectively decided that since "computers don't make mistakes", they are always worthy of our trust?

Mentioned in this episode:

• British Post Office scandal
• Dutch welfare algorithm [permalink]
• Enshittification - Cory Doctorow's theory of how platforms move inexorably towards abusing users and partners alike
• Flint water crisis
• Data labelling in Kenya [permalink]

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