July 1, 2023
Dangers of "Blind Trust" and Most Important Trust Topics | Ep 6
Episode 6: What are the critical factors and dangers of "Blind Trust"? and The Most Important Trust Topics?
What are the critical factors and dangers of "Blind Trust" in our world today and in the growing numbers of people who are disconnecting from...
Episode 6: What are the critical factors and dangers of "Blind Trust"? and The Most Important Trust Topics?
What are the critical factors and dangers of "Blind Trust" in our world today and in the growing numbers of people who are disconnecting from digitally connected life as a way to become healthy and centered again as future robots will get more intelligent with AI - is that a danger to us all in that people are becoming less informed and involved in government and essential political/governance/society structures/laws and policies being decided for us all.
Let's break it down into three main points: blind trust, disconnection from digital life, and political disengagement.
Blind Trust: Trust is a fundamental part of society, allowing us to engage with institutions, individuals, and systems without requiring exhaustive firsthand verification.
However, when trust becomes 'blind,' i.e., placed without critical thinking, scrutiny, or checks and balances, it can become risky. Blind trust can leave societies vulnerable to manipulation, misinformation, and exploitation.
It's essential in the era of digital information, AI, and robots, where sophisticated technologies can disseminate misleading or false information widely and rapidly.
As a result, it is increasingly essential we need more STRONG, CIVICALLY ENGAGED people need to cultivate information literacy, critical thinking skills, and a healthy skepticism about the information they receive.
Digital Disconnection: A growing trend is digital minimalism, or a 'digital detox,' where individuals limit or eliminate their digital technologies to improve mental health, increase focus, and reclaim personal time. While this can have personal benefits, there's a risk that disconnecting too much can lead to being uninformed or disconnected from society. Not all disconnection is harmful, and it's possible to strike a balance.
Digital literacy education can help individuals use technology in healthy, balanced ways without disconnecting fully.
Political Disengagement: As people disconnect from digital life, they might also become less informed and involved in the societal and political decisions being made around them.
This could lead to a lack of representation in these decision-making processes, affecting the quality and fairness of laws and policies.
It's essential to maintain a level of civic engagement and find ways to stay informed and involved independent of constant digital connection. Governments, institutions, and communities can help by making political participation accessible and promoting civic education.
In conclusion, while these factors present challenges, they are interconnected. A thoughtful, balanced approach to digital life and trust, coupled with active civic engagement, can help individuals navigate these challenges. It's a collective responsibility to ensure that as technology continues to evolve, it is used to foster informed, engaged, and healthy societies.
Thank You for watching TODAY. The “Trust Factor” in your life is essential. The lack or abundance of it profoundly impacts the quality of your life.
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What are the critical factors and dangers of "Blind Trust" in our world today and in the growing numbers of people who are disconnecting from digitally connected life as a way to become healthy and centered again as future robots will get more intelligent with AI - is that a danger to us all in that people are becoming less informed and involved in government and essential political/governance/society structures/laws and policies being decided for us all.
Let's break it down into three main points: blind trust, disconnection from digital life, and political disengagement.
Blind Trust: Trust is a fundamental part of society, allowing us to engage with institutions, individuals, and systems without requiring exhaustive firsthand verification.
However, when trust becomes 'blind,' i.e., placed without critical thinking, scrutiny, or checks and balances, it can become risky. Blind trust can leave societies vulnerable to manipulation, misinformation, and exploitation.
It's essential in the era of digital information, AI, and robots, where sophisticated technologies can disseminate misleading or false information widely and rapidly.
As a result, it is increasingly essential we need more STRONG, CIVICALLY ENGAGED people need to cultivate information literacy, critical thinking skills, and a healthy skepticism about the information they receive.
Digital Disconnection: A growing trend is digital minimalism, or a 'digital detox,' where individuals limit or eliminate their digital technologies to improve mental health, increase focus, and reclaim personal time. While this can have personal benefits, there's a risk that disconnecting too much can lead to being uninformed or disconnected from society. Not all disconnection is harmful, and it's possible to strike a balance.
Digital literacy education can help individuals use technology in healthy, balanced ways without disconnecting fully.
Political Disengagement: As people disconnect from digital life, they might also become less informed and involved in the societal and political decisions being made around them.
This could lead to a lack of representation in these decision-making processes, affecting the quality and fairness of laws and policies.
It's essential to maintain a level of civic engagement and find ways to stay informed and involved independent of constant digital connection. Governments, institutions, and communities can help by making political participation accessible and promoting civic education.
In conclusion, while these factors present challenges, they are interconnected. A thoughtful, balanced approach to digital life and trust, coupled with active civic engagement, can help individuals navigate these challenges. It's a collective responsibility to ensure that as technology continues to evolve, it is used to foster informed, engaged, and healthy societies.
Thank You for watching TODAY. The “Trust Factor” in your life is essential. The lack or abundance of it profoundly impacts the quality of your life.
TRUST FACTOR with Rob Greenlee (The Show)
"Trust Factor" is a groundbreaking video show that focuses on all aspects related to building trust in human-to-human and business-to-human relationships. Rob Greenlee, a seasoned professional with years of experience in media communication and business leadership, hosts the show. He brings his expertise to this vital topic of our times. Each episode of the show delves into different aspects of trust-building, including the importance of trust in human relationships, communication strategies, ethics and integrity, conflict resolution, customer relationships, leadership, and more.
ROB GREENLEE (The Host)
Rob Greenlee is...
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Trust Factor with Rob Greenley, focuses
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online communications only on one hundred TV. What are the critical factors and dangers
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where content creation begins. What are
the critical factors and dangers of blind trust
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in our world today? So I
think it's an interesting question, and it's
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been popping up in my mind as
the growing numbers of people who are disconnecting
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from their digital lives increasingly because of
conflict about the stress of being online.
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I think many see disconnection from the
online world and technology as a way to
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become more healthy and centered again.
But yet at the same time, future
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robots and AI will continue to get
more intelligent, and that's a danger to
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all of us as we disconnect and
as technology takes over larger parts of our
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lives. If people humans become less
informed about what's happening in the world,
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there is a danger, I believe, and it's becoming increasingly important that we
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all stay involved in government and be
informed about the essential political governance and society
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structures and increasingly laws and policies being
decided for all of us today. This
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is a period over the next eight
to ten years will be a significant period
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of change. If we don't like
the changes that are being proposed, we
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need to get involved. We need
to put our civics had on and get
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involved in those processes as much as
we have time for now. Granted,
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I realize that many of us are
very busy in our lives. We have
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families, we have job responsibilities.
It's difficult for us to be involved on
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politics and involved in local governments and
things like that. But there are decisions
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that are being made about our future
and our lives right now in all those
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places that we may or may not
want in our future, and technology is
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really enabling this. So this question
thread kind of brings up some complex and
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important topics around the connection between our
digital life, our trust and disconnection,
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and societal participation. Those are kind
of the key elements of what I'm talking
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about here. It may feel good
to back away from what's happening in the
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world because it just feels too stressful, or it feels like, well,
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we just can't make enough of an
impact where it's worth our time to put
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into trying to promote and be informed, and there's just so much I guess
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conflict that all of us would like
to avoid. And really the three main
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points that I want to talk about
here now is the blind trust, disconnection
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from digital life, and political disengagement. And I think those are interesting elements
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as we look at our trust factors
in our lives and how these elements of
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decisions that we make, and that
I believe these are decisions that we make
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around the quality of our life more
I think from the long term they may
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not be easy in the short term, but it is true that we may
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need to be engaged in these topics, in these issues on an ongoing basis
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now going forward, because the one
constant that I think that's happening now,
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and this is kind of a crazy
thing to think about, is that change
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is going to be coming at us
at a much more rapid pace. Technology
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is enabling more control of our lives, access to data about our lives,
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and increasingly that data that I'm referring
to have data points about activities that we
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partake in our lives are being kind
of collated into kind of a profile of
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us. And increasingly, I think
our government and our political establishment and our
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rations are cooperating to basically have access
to very detailed data about our lives and
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our activities in our lives, and
we just need to decide if that is
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okay, and also to have an
input on whether or not the use of
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that and the access of that will
be used in positive ways versus destructive ways
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or harmful ways or ways that we
don't agree with that will cause fundamental societal
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breakdowns. And this is really a
topic around blind trust, and that's what
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kind of where I want to start
off here is trust is a fundamental part
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of society and allowing us to engage
with trust is so important with our institutions,
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with individuals and systems without really requiring
exhaustive firsthand verifications. So are we
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going to be able to trust these
institutions and individuals without doing firsthand verification and
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seeing what's behind the things that are
going on. However, when trust becomes
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blind, like we're talking about here, placed without critical thinking, scrutiny,
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or checks and balances, it can
become risky. So blind trusts can leave
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societies vulnerable to manipulation, misinformation,
and exploitation or worse. So I think
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these are important things for us to
think about as we participate in the world
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around us today. Contribute your thoughts, get involved in local politics, get
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involved as much as you have time
for, and write your congressman when you
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see things that are going on that
or new bills or whatever. I know,
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it's so difficult to keep up with
this stuff because everything is moving so
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fast right now, but it's really
essential in this era of digital information AI
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and robots. The growing impact I
believe of robots that are coming where sophisticated
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technology can disseminate misleading or false information
widely and rapidly. We need to really
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have our radar up about what is
going on in the world. And as
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a result, it is increasingly essential
that we need to be strong and civically
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engage people to cultivate information literacy,
critical thinking skills. And I've talked about
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this in past episodes, and healthy
skepticism about the information that you are hearing
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and that you get from either the
media or political leaders or corporations. Increasingly
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we are seeing agendas be a big
part of this. I think we need
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to all be aware of that and
not just take what we're being told as
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fact. Believe me, I faced
this struggle too of knowing what to believe,
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knowing what really to think about.
But I think just running it through
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a critical filter of your own common
sense. And this is a struggle and
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do create a balanced life. And
I want to talk about this a little
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bit more later. But the other
element of this is our desire and a
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growing trend for digital disconnection. So
we want to get away from the stress,
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get away from the turmoil, get
away from let's say, Facebook or
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social media platforms or YouTube, because
there's just so much digital toxicity going on
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there. But it is a significant
trend that's growing around digital minimalism and where
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individuals limit or eliminate their digital technologies
in their lives to improve mental health,
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increase focus, and reclaim their personal
time. Which, hey, it's really
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hard to disagree with those priorities.
You know, I grew up in an
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era without internet technology and without this
high level of technical information gathering, and
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I can see the benefits of that. But yet, while this can have
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personal benefits, like I say,
there is a risk a disconnection too much
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can lead to being uninformed or disconnected
from society. And not all disconnection is
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harmful, but it is possible,
I believe, to strike a balance.
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It's all about focus, it's all
about priorities. I do think that some
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of us can pull this off and
other people may struggle at it. If
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you're one of those people that you
think that you have the skills, the
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ability, and the wherewithal to strike
that balance and still be involved, I
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think it's very important. Digital literacy
education can help individuals use technology and a
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healthy and balanced ways without disconnect fully. You know. That's finding ways to
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use technology an efficient way and a
very specific and targeted way, And that's
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why it's important to listen to independent
creators that can provide some guidance and direction
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on maybe how to do some of
these things. Case in point, this
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show is kind of the purpose of
why I'm doing this show is that I
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believe that trust is key and fundamental
to all this, and the political disengagement
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is even more damaging not voting,
not learning about candidates, not sending an
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email to your leaders when there's a
proposed bill that's happening. That there's always
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resources online to look up propose bills
in your state house, in your state
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Senate, as well as at the
federal level, to somewhat do your best
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to keep up with what is happening
there and what the discussions are. And
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increasingly independent content creators are also following
this also, so people that disconnect from
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their digital life might become less informed, like I was saying earlier, and
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not as involved in society or political
decisions. So this is really key.
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This could lead to a lack of
representation in serious and important decision making process
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I could affect the quality of your
life and the fairness of laws and policies
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that align with your values, maybe
even the values that human beings have for
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their own lives. I think that
the United States of America is a meek
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country the standpoint, if we have
a constitution that spells out certain rights that
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we have, and I do think
that there's people out there that would like
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to take those rights away for greater
control. So those are things there's a
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benefit to control. There's a benefit
to enforcement using technology of our laws,
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and I believe that's kind of the
big thing that's happening right now. And
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so it's really kind of essential to
maintain a level of civic engagement, to
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find ways to stain formed and involved
that is independent of constant digital connection.
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So, you know, I think
it's a hard thing to do. That's
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kind of a real world kind of
a thing too, maybe going to council
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meetings, maybe going to sessions in
Congress or in your local house or whatever,
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just getting involved. You know,
I think governments can do a better
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job of helping people have access,
and I know that there are laws and
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statutes that require the government to offer
public contributions in the form of meetings,
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and your community governments as well need
to be providing access and promoting civic education.
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So these are other elements. So
in conclusion, while these factors present
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challenges, they are interconnected, so
a thoughtful, balanced approach to digital life
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and trust, coupled with active civic
engagement can help individuals navigate these challenges.
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So it's kind of a responsibility that
we all have to ensure that as technology
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continues to evolve and be used in
increasing interconnected ways, that it is used
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in a way that fosters informed and
engaged and healthy societies. So these are
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things that we have to foster and
encourage as well. So that's kind of
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my ideas on that topic of just
blind trust and our responsibilities to not take
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everything or let everything just slip by
based on apathy or lack of willing to
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engage. I know myself, I
need to do a better job of this
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too. I need to write emails
and I need to go to local sessions
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myself. So I'm not a perfect
example of this myself, but I am
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trying to raise awareness of these things
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informed as well. But it does
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with increasing numbers of people not encouraging
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this episode, which will be a
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and these topics I will be exploring
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Some of these topics I've already started
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this is episode six, So if
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these topics in prior episodes, I
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take a listen. I should have
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podcasts as well, probably by the
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so that's my goal anyway, and
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when I published the video side of
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episode six published the audio episode at
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I'm really thinking about ways that I
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show to get into details and to
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think of in the context of trust. But as you make those connections,
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and as I make those connections,
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kind of become clear. I think
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so many different directions, and that's
what I want to do with this show
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is to build a show that really
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topics and issues that are kind of
fundamental in the trust concept, but maybe
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in areas that are you might think
are unusual ways to think about. So
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the number one one is trust in
AI and automated systems or autonomy. As
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AI permeates every aspect of our life, which it will, it's just a
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matter of time, establishing trust in
these systems becomes increasingly critical. So discovers
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areas like transparency and AI, AI
decision making, ethical AI, and AI's
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impact on privacy. So I did
do an episode last two episodes ago on
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can We Trust Ai? But there
are so many elements of AI trust that
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have yet to be explored, and
so that's what I hope to do in
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this major topic area. So look
for this topic to be a big one
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with me moving forward, because I
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things. And then number two is
trust in cryptocurrencies, right, Bitcoin,
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dogecoin, blockchain, that kind of
stuff. I think that there's a lot
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of misunderstanding and a lot of controversy
around cryptocurrencies or cybercurrencies or cyber exchanges,
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how the government is viewing these as
well. As these technologies gain more mainstream
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acceptance, trust in their security reliability
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want to talk about those here as
well. I'm sure that many of you
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are not really involved in cryptocurrencies or
cybercurrencies or anything quite yet, but I
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do believe over the subsequent years this
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increasing opportunities and access will be available. I guess it really gets down to
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what the governments do around currency and
the US dollar and what happens around the
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world. It may be that cryptocurrencies
get shut down. I don't know that
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blockchain is going away, but these
are autonomous to some degree systems or into
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pendance systems from control, and I
do believe that there is an interest in
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controlling cryptocurrencies and blockchains, so I'm
gonna explore that a little bit as well.
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And then the next one is trust
in remote work environments. See with
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the shift to remote and hybrid work
due to what we just went through with
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COVID nineteen pandemic, trust in digital
communication and collaboration tools exploded, right so
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as well as trust between employers and
employees in remote settings. Now. Granted,
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there is a significant backlash tomote with
a lot of major corporations right now,
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even in the digital side where they
want people back in the office.
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where the trust in remote work environments really
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comes into play, because I do
believe that there are many employers increasing numbers
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of employers that don't trust homework.
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explored as well. And the next
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Do we trust the big pharma companies? Do we trust government? Do
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we trust the FDA? Do we
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amount of testing of those pharmacological agents? Are we trusting enough to allow those
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in our body? What are those
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in the medical research? Now?
The vaccine development process is a critical issue
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now going forward, I believe that
the governments of the world are going to
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make this a primary driver of a
lot of digital systems that are going to
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have an interest in surveilling us and
keeping a close eye on our activities and
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what we do in the world and
what we're potentially able to do based on
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the potential health outbreaks that may occur. So this is another topic. I'm
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going to remain as neutral politically as
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going to get back to issues of
trust. So number five here is trust
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in cybersecurity. So do we trust
our access to digital information? Can we
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trust our ability to access financial information? What about breaches of data? What
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about cyber attacks? Trust in cybersecurity, other practices and institutions as it relates
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to cybersecurity from a governmental and nation
state issue too, cybersecurity is such an
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area of I believe massive amounts of
mistrust and massive amounts of uncertainty and stress
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in many people's lives. And the
last one here is climate change. Climate
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change and trust, trust in climate
change science, international cooperation, and corporate
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commitments to reducing emissions are all emerging
as significant trust related issues in our world
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and in all of our lives.
I believe many of these things kind of
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roll up and are part of each
other because there is conflicting information out there
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that exists on the topic relating to
natural shifts in climates that have been going
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on for millions a year, and
those are a factor here too versus the
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impact on humans. Are humans really
causing climate chain or is the shift based
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on solar cycles and different heat patterns
on the planet that are constantly evolving and
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changing. So these are topics that
I think are very important for us to
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be clear on so we can trust
the information that's being told to us and
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make the appropriate decisions in our lives. I think it is always better to
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have a cleaner earth and a cleaner
environment, but we need to really figure
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this out right. Is CO two
really the dangerous thing that it's being portrayed
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to be right now or is it? Let's get clear on what's really going
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on here and what the main topics
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what we're being told? So anyway, those are the main six area is
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that I'm going to focus on over
the next couple months in this show.
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So what I wanted to do next
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episode four and five. Since last
week's episode, I did not talk about
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comments, so Jody Craigle from episode
five wrote to me, your show is
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fantastic and more people need to see
it. Keep doing what you're doing,
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Rob. I appreciate that feedback,
Jody. I will keep doing what because
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I believe this is one of the
most important topics in our world today,
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so I'm going to keep it going. Sue Anne also wrote this is about
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episode four where I did talk about
AI tough subject this trust thing. Love
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the show and reminder for finding and
understanding how to create trust. Also cool
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point about first learning to trust our
own thoughts and value those thoughts while still
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staying open minded about other information and
other people's thoughts. This gets back to
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a little bit what I talked about, developing a little bit of a thick
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skin about other people's views and listen, take what you can from those views,
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but you don't have to agree.
Nobody is. I guess generally in
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the world, we shouldn't feel like
we have to be forced to agree to
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any opinion or any piece of fact. I think we all need to decide
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for ourselves and people around us need
respect that. I believe that's not what's
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happening to so thank you see Anne
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then the third one is Digital Rockstar
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an episode four as well. I'm
loving chat GPT and want to explore more
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AI tools. Great show, Rob, thank you so much. I appreciate
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that, and I definitely want to
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email, Rob dot Greenley at gmail
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anyway, and thank you for joining
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appreciate you being here with me.
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Trust Factor with Rob Greenley, focuses
on all aspects to building human trust in
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online communications only on one hundred TV. What are the critical factors and dangers
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of blind trust will be discussed in
this episode. Rob Greenley here again for
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episode six. Thank you for joining
me. The trust factor in your life
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is essential and it profoundly impacts the
quality of your life. So that's what
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this series is all about, is
to have a significant impact on the quality
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of your life. So trust is
the number one factor in all of our
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lives right now, and we'll continue
to grow in its importance. So thank
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you for joining me here this week. It's great to have you here.
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where content creation begins. What are
the critical factors and dangers of blind trust
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in our world today? So I
think it's an interesting question, and it's
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been popping up in my mind as
the growing numbers of people who are disconnecting
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from their digital lives increasingly because of
conflict about the stress of being online.
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I think many see disconnection from the
online world and technology as a way to
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become more healthy and centered again.
But yet at the same time, future
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robots and AI will continue to get
more intelligent, and that's a danger to
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all of us as we disconnect and
as technology takes over larger parts of our
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lives. If people humans become less
informed about what's happening in the world,
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there is a danger, I believe, and it's becoming increasingly important that we
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all stay involved in government and be
informed about the essential political governance and society
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structures and increasingly laws and policies being
decided for all of us today. This
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is a period over the next eight
to ten years will be a significant period
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of change. If we don't like
the changes that are being proposed, we
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need to get involved. We need
to put our civics had on and get
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involved in those processes as much as
we have time for now. Granted,
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I realize that many of us are
very busy in our lives. We have
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families, we have job responsibilities.
It's difficult for us to be involved on
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politics and involved in local governments and
things like that. But there are decisions
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that are being made about our future
and our lives right now in all those
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places that we may or may not
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really enabling this. So this question
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important topics around the connection between our
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and societal participation. Those are kind
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about here. It may feel good
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world because it just feels too stressful, or it feels like, well,
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we just can't make enough of an
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into trying to promote and be informed, and there's just so much I guess
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conflict that all of us would like
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points that I want to talk about
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from digital life, and political disengagement. And I think those are interesting elements
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as we look at our trust factors
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decisions that we make, and that
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around the quality of our life more
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not be easy in the short term, but it is true that we may
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need to be engaged in these topics, in these issues on an ongoing basis
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now going forward, because the one
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and this is kind of a crazy
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is going to be coming at us
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is enabling more control of our lives, access to data about our lives,
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and increasingly that data that I'm referring
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our government and our political establishment and our
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rations are cooperating to basically have access
to very detailed data about our lives and
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our activities in our lives, and
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okay, and also to have an
input on whether or not the use of
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that and the access of that will
be used in positive ways versus destructive ways
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or harmful ways or ways that we
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breakdowns. And this is really a
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kind of where I want to start
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of society and allowing us to engage
with trust is so important with our institutions,
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with individuals and systems without really requiring
exhaustive firsthand verifications. So are we
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going to be able to trust these
institutions and individuals without doing firsthand verification and
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seeing what's behind the things that are
going on. However, when trust becomes
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blind, like we're talking about here, placed without critical thinking, scrutiny,
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or checks and balances, it can
become risky. So blind trusts can leave
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societies vulnerable to manipulation, misinformation,
and exploitation or worse. So I think
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these are important things for us to
think about as we participate in the world
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around us today. Contribute your thoughts, get involved in local politics, get
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involved as much as you have time
for, and write your congressman when you
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see things that are going on that
or new bills or whatever. I know,
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it's so difficult to keep up with
this stuff because everything is moving so
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fast right now, but it's really
essential in this era of digital information AI
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and robots. The growing impact I
believe of robots that are coming where sophisticated
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technology can disseminate misleading or false information
widely and rapidly. We need to really
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have our radar up about what is
going on in the world. And as
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a result, it is increasingly essential
that we need to be strong and civically
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engage people to cultivate information literacy,
critical thinking skills. And I've talked about
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this in past episodes, and healthy
skepticism about the information that you are hearing
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and that you get from either the
media or political leaders or corporations. Increasingly
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we are seeing agendas be a big
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to all be aware of that and
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fact. Believe me, I faced
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knowing what really to think about.
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a critical filter of your own common
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do create a balanced life. And
I want to talk about this a little
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bit more later. But the other
element of this is our desire and a
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growing trend for digital disconnection. So
we want to get away from the stress,
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get away from the turmoil, get
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social media platforms or YouTube, because
there's just so much digital toxicity going on
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there. But it is a significant
trend that's growing around digital minimalism and where
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individuals limit or eliminate their digital technologies
in their lives to improve mental health,
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increase focus, and reclaim their personal
time. Which, hey, it's really
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hard to disagree with those priorities.
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era without internet technology and without this
high level of technical information gathering, and
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I can see the benefits of that. But yet, while this can have
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personal benefits, like I say,
there is a risk a disconnection too much
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can lead to being uninformed or disconnected
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harmful, but it is possible,
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of us can pull this off and
other people may struggle at it. If
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you're one of those people that you
think that you have the skills, the
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ability, and the wherewithal to strike
that balance and still be involved, I
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think it's very important. Digital literacy
education can help individuals use technology and a
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healthy and balanced ways without disconnect fully. You know. That's finding ways to
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use technology an efficient way and a
very specific and targeted way, And that's
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why it's important to listen to independent
creators that can provide some guidance and direction
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on maybe how to do some of
these things. Case in point, this
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show is kind of the purpose of
why I'm doing this show is that I
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believe that trust is key and fundamental
to all this, and the political disengagement
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is even more damaging not voting,
not learning about candidates, not sending an
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email to your leaders when there's a
proposed bill that's happening. That there's always
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resources online to look up propose bills
in your state house, in your state
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Senate, as well as at the
federal level, to somewhat do your best
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to keep up with what is happening
there and what the discussions are. And
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increasingly independent content creators are also following
this also, so people that disconnect from
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their digital life might become less informed, like I was saying earlier, and
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not as involved in society or political
decisions. So this is really key.
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This could lead to a lack of
representation in serious and important decision making process
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I could affect the quality of your
life and the fairness of laws and policies
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that align with your values, maybe
even the values that human beings have for
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their own lives. I think that
the United States of America is a meek
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country the standpoint, if we have
a constitution that spells out certain rights that
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we have, and I do think
that there's people out there that would like
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to take those rights away for greater
control. So those are things there's a
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benefit to control. There's a benefit
to enforcement using technology of our laws,
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and I believe that's kind of the
big thing that's happening right now. And
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so it's really kind of essential to
maintain a level of civic engagement, to
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find ways to stain formed and involved
that is independent of constant digital connection.
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it's a hard thing to do. That's
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kind of a real world kind of
a thing too, maybe going to council
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meetings, maybe going to sessions in
Congress or in your local house or whatever,
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just getting involved. You know,
I think governments can do a better
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job of helping people have access,
and I know that there are laws and
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statutes that require the government to offer
public contributions in the form of meetings,
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and your community governments as well need
to be providing access and promoting civic education.
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in conclusion, while these factors present
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challenges, they are interconnected, so
a thoughtful, balanced approach to digital life
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and trust, coupled with active civic
engagement can help individuals navigate these challenges.
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we all have to ensure that as technology
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continues to evolve and be used in
increasing interconnected ways, that it is used
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in a way that fosters informed and
engaged and healthy societies. So these are
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things that we have to foster and
encourage as well. So that's kind of
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my ideas on that topic of just
blind trust and our responsibilities to not take
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everything or let everything just slip by
based on apathy or lack of willing to
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engage. I know myself, I
need to do a better job of this
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too. I need to write emails
and I need to go to local sessions
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myself. So I'm not a perfect
example of this myself, but I am
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trying to raise awareness of these things
and make changes in my life and stay
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informed as well. But it does
come with a price. It does come
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with increasing numbers of people not encouraging
people to stay informed because it can feel
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stressful. So I wanted to jump
to another topic to kind of wrap up
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this episode, which will be a
little bit shorter than my last episode.
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But here are some of the most
important topics around trust in the world today,
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and these topics I will be exploring
in this podcast in the coming episodes.
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Some of these topics I've already started
to address in earlier episodes. So
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this is episode six, So if
you're interested in learning more about some of
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these topics in prior episodes, I
would go back and take a watch or
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take a listen. I should have
all of my past episodes up as audio
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podcasts as well, probably by the
end or the middle of this coming week,
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so that's my goal anyway, and
so I'll be caught up. So
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when I published the video side of
this, I will simultaneously going forward after
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episode six published the audio episode at
the same time. So don't want to
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watch me, but you have time
to listen, then you have that choice.
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So that's the idea anyway. So
here are some of the topics that
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I would like to cover over the
next few months on this podcast. And
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I'm really thinking about ways that I
can kind of expand the scope of this
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show to get into details and to
get into areas that maybe you wouldn't necessarily
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think of in the context of trust. But as you make those connections,
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and as I make those connections,
I think that those areas are going to
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kind of become clear. I think
that the topic of trust and go in
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so many different directions, and that's
what I want to do with this show
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is to build a show that really
has a large following is talking about important
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topics and issues that are kind of
fundamental in the trust concept, but maybe
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in areas that are you might think
are unusual ways to think about. So
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the number one one is trust in
AI and automated systems or autonomy. As
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AI permeates every aspect of our life, which it will, it's just a
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matter of time, establishing trust in
these systems becomes increasingly critical. So discovers
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areas like transparency and AI, AI
decision making, ethical AI, and AI's
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impact on privacy. So I did
do an episode last two episodes ago on
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can We Trust Ai? But there
are so many elements of AI trust that
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have yet to be explored, and
so that's what I hope to do in
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this major topic area. So look
for this topic to be a big one
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with me moving forward, because I
think it's really key to a lot of
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things. And then number two is
trust in cryptocurrencies, right, Bitcoin,
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dogecoin, blockchain, that kind of
stuff. I think that there's a lot
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of misunderstanding and a lot of controversy
around cryptocurrencies or cybercurrencies or cyber exchanges,
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how the government is viewing these as
well. As these technologies gain more mainstream
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acceptance, trust in their security reliability
become major topics of discussion. So I
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want to talk about those here as
well. I'm sure that many of you
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are not really involved in cryptocurrencies or
cybercurrencies or anything quite yet, but I
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do believe over the subsequent years this
includes blockchain as well. I believe that
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increasing opportunities and access will be available. I guess it really gets down to
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what the governments do around currency and
the US dollar and what happens around the
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world. It may be that cryptocurrencies
get shut down. I don't know that
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blockchain is going away, but these
are autonomous to some degree systems or into
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pendance systems from control, and I
do believe that there is an interest in
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controlling cryptocurrencies and blockchains, so I'm
gonna explore that a little bit as well.
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And then the next one is trust
in remote work environments. See with
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the shift to remote and hybrid work
due to what we just went through with
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COVID nineteen pandemic, trust in digital
communication and collaboration tools exploded, right so
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as well as trust between employers and
employees in remote settings. Now. Granted,
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there is a significant backlash tomote with
a lot of major corporations right now,
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even in the digital side where they
want people back in the office.
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where the trust in remote work environments really
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comes into play, because I do
believe that there are many employers increasing numbers
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of employers that don't trust homework.
So these are topics that need to be
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explored as well. And the next
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Do we trust the big pharma companies? Do we trust government? Do
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we trust the FDA? Do we
trust the rapid development of pharmaceuticals with minimal
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amount of testing of those pharmacological agents? Are we trusting enough to allow those
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in our body? What are those
doing to our bodies? Do we trust
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in the medical research? Now?
The vaccine development process is a critical issue
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now going forward, I believe that
the governments of the world are going to
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make this a primary driver of a
lot of digital systems that are going to
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have an interest in surveilling us and
keeping a close eye on our activities and
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what we do in the world and
what we're potentially able to do based on
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the potential health outbreaks that may occur. So this is another topic. I'm
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going to remain as neutral politically as
I can on these topics, but it's
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going to get back to issues of
trust. So number five here is trust
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in cybersecurity. So do we trust
our access to digital information? Can we
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trust our ability to access financial information? What about breaches of data? What
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about cyber attacks? Trust in cybersecurity, other practices and institutions as it relates
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to cybersecurity from a governmental and nation
state issue too, cybersecurity is such an
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area of I believe massive amounts of
mistrust and massive amounts of uncertainty and stress
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in many people's lives. And the
last one here is climate change. Climate
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change and trust, trust in climate
change science, international cooperation, and corporate
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commitments to reducing emissions are all emerging
as significant trust related issues in our world
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and in all of our lives.
I believe many of these things kind of
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roll up and are part of each
other because there is conflicting information out there
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that exists on the topic relating to
natural shifts in climates that have been going
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on for millions a year, and
those are a factor here too versus the
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impact on humans. Are humans really
causing climate chain or is the shift based
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on solar cycles and different heat patterns
on the planet that are constantly evolving and
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changing. So these are topics that
I think are very important for us to
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be clear on so we can trust
the information that's being told to us and
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make the appropriate decisions in our lives. I think it is always better to
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have a cleaner earth and a cleaner
environment, but we need to really figure
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this out right. Is CO two
really the dangerous thing that it's being portrayed
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to be right now or is it? Let's get clear on what's really going
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on here and what the main topics
are of it, and do we trust
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what we're being told? So anyway, those are the main six area is
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that I'm going to focus on over
the next couple months in this show.
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So what I wanted to do next
was talk about comments and show feedback from
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episode four and five. Since last
week's episode, I did not talk about
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comments, so Jody Craigle from episode
five wrote to me, your show is
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fantastic and more people need to see
it. Keep doing what you're doing,
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Rob. I appreciate that feedback,
Jody. I will keep doing what because
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I believe this is one of the
most important topics in our world today,
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so I'm going to keep it going. Sue Anne also wrote this is about
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episode four where I did talk about
AI tough subject this trust thing. Love
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the show and reminder for finding and
understanding how to create trust. Also cool
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point about first learning to trust our
own thoughts and value those thoughts while still
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staying open minded about other information and
other people's thoughts. This gets back to
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a little bit what I talked about, developing a little bit of a thick
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skin about other people's views and listen, take what you can from those views,
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but you don't have to agree.
Nobody is. I guess generally in
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the world, we shouldn't feel like
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any opinion or any piece of fact. I think we all need to decide
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for ourselves and people around us need
respect that. I believe that's not what's
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happening to so thank you see Anne
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then the third one is Digital Rockstar
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an episode four as well. I'm
loving chat GPT and want to explore more
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AI tools. Great show, Rob, thank you so much. I appreciate
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that, and I definitely want to
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email, Rob dot Greenley at gmail
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n l E. That's Rob Greenley
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at well. So my LinkedIn addresses
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comment stream on YouTube as you're watching
this and would love to hear your thoughts
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anyway, and thank you for joining
me here on episode six of this series,
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So thank you so much. I
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and I hope you come back and
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I'm going to try and push the
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see what I can get done.
So, thank you so much and I
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appreciate you being here with me.
Bye.
