Everything we do as a society relies on trust: trust that systems will do what we expect, trust that the parties we act with are genuine, trust that the results that we get are valid. Trust is essential and contextual, born of assumptions and rooted in norms but also the foundation for those assumptions and norms.

The same is true online. The internet's security layers provide mechanisms for trust in what we do every day, but these protocols and systems were built with a specific world in mind. When these assumptions are challenged, can we still trust the system built upon them?

In this talk, we'll take a look at how trust can be challenged by things like AI agents, easily generated data, and human-mimicking computer systems. We'll talk about how these new ways of looking at the world are changing how we build things. Maybe we'll even find a good way forward in all of this, one that we can all trust.