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As emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, automated, and robotic technologies become increasingly prominent in our possible futures, there is growing anxiety about if they can be trusted. Governments, industry organisations and research funders are investing millions in the quest to design trustworthy technologies. But is a future where trusted technologies organise our lives for us even plausible? How do tech workers and researchers design or make technologies that we can trust? Is it even realistic to assume that people would trust technologies in everyday life? This book argues that we need to look beyond simplistic assumptions that trustworthy technologies will solve societyâs problems, to instead ask what would happen if we exchanged the motif of trustworthy technologies for one of trusted futures guided by people, the environment and other species.
This will be the first book to advance a new argument and research agenda in this field, and is therefore designe

Can We Trust Technology

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/23/2025
      ISBN13: 9781032710433, 978-1032710433
      ISBN10: 1032710438
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      Book Synopsis

      As emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, automated, and robotic technologies become increasingly prominent in our possible futures, there is growing anxiety about if they can be trusted. Governments, industry organisations and research funders are investing millions in the quest to design trustworthy technologies. But is a future where trusted technologies organise our lives for us even plausible? How do tech workers and researchers design or make technologies that we can trust? Is it even realistic to assume that people would trust technologies in everyday life? This book argues that we need to look beyond simplistic assumptions that trustworthy technologies will solve societyâs problems, to instead ask what would happen if we exchanged the motif of trustworthy technologies for one of trusted futures guided by people, the environment and other species.
      This will be the first book to advance a new argument and research agenda in this field, and is therefore designe

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