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Authors

Antonio Estella

Document Type

Symposium

Publication Date

Winter 2023

Publication Citation

30 Indiana J. Global Legal Studies 39

Abstract

I shall start by reflecting on the importance that trust has for society (section 2). From there, I will define what is to be understood in this paper by trust (section 3). I shall then review the basis of trust (section 4) and shall make a reference to the main sources of evidence on trust (like, surveys and laboratory experiments), and to some of the results that these sources reveal on interpersonal and institutional trust (section 5). In the next section (section 6), I shall go on to analyse specifically the issue of trust in AI, will refer to the existing evidence on the matter, and will review some of the most recent literature on this topic. In the remaining sections (sections 7 and 8), I will describe and analyse the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation of AI, and in particular, the part of that proposal that deals with trust in AI. In the last section of this article, I will wrap up the whole argument of this paper and make some conclusions (section 9). The main argument that will be developed in this paper is that it is inconsequential to speak of trust in AI systems.

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