Do you trust this?

There have been a couple of prominent news stories that might give us all pause for thought over the weekend.

We’ve sweated so much over what we can get robots to do that we seem to have forgotten to think about what the robots can get us to do. Will the children in the experiment grow up to be more wary of bossy robots? Or will we find ourselves willingly rolling over for our machine overlords? A quick look at unexpected-item-in-the-bagging-area-induced paralysis suggests their day may soon be at hand.

The question for me isn’t whether we prefer to obey a person or a robot, but how we can sort out when we should be favoring one over the other: are humans any more reliable, or inherently trustworthy?

Arguably not.

All of which makes us start to wonder where fuzzy line of ‘truth’ falls, and appreciate that my understanding of it might be different from yours.

This has ramifications, and not just for the unhappy lexicographer who has to define the word ‘truth’ in the dictionary. Without consensus on a shared truth, how can we, for example, plan and agree on a policy? How do you even judge that the policy has been a success? If a narrative says one thing and the facts say another, which will win in the end?

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