The reasons of trust

Trustworthiness of Autonomous Systems

“…A shelf has no attitudes towards what it does. Human trust is traditionally mentally, linguistically and rationally based rather than limited to summaries of behavior [24,40,48,84]. AS are a challenge to traditional philosophical distinctions on trust because they are inanimate, in the sense that they are programed to fulfill a set of tasks within a domain and have no intrinsic care for humans and no self-driven desire to maintain their reputation.…”

“…Our reasons to trust are based on evaluations of a general trustworthiness of an agent [24,[39][40][41]63]. After all, the boy who cried wolf was not trusted in the end because he had a history of false testimony even though he was correct in the final instance.…”

Being Pragmatic about Trust

“…7 In order to consider this matter in more detail, in the next two sections I consider two restrictive views: Baier's and Faulkner's. I will not consider views, such as Hieronymi's (2008), that link trust with full belief in the trustworthiness or reliability of the other, nor will I consider McLeod's (2002) view. In my view their requirements are simply too stringent on any reading to satisfy the Explanatory Constraint for the types of cases we are interested in.…”

“…• A belief that the person relied upon is trustworthy (Hieronymi, 2008). 2 These restrictions imply, more or less, that Francesca's strategic expectation of reliability does not count as genuine trust.…”

Knowledge from scientific expert testimony without epistemic trust

“…Theories taking belief to be constitutive of trust typically face the problem of doxastic voluntarism (Hieronymi 2008a). 14 Qualified in this way it would for example be pragmatically rational for a patient to adopt an attitude of coping trust regarding his family doctor's diagnosis of a severe cold but not regarding his family doctor's diagnosis of, say, a rare auto-immune disease.…”