And you can see that the face becomes much more feminine, and now much more masculine, when it turns into so-called, quote unquote, untrustworthy looking face. Again, we can zoom in, and as you can see, the face becomes much more feminine, the shape of the face is identical, but the only thing that we are manipulating is the surface texture.
And this is what it looks like. This is the untrustworthy face. You can see it looks kind of angry and threatening.
So trustworthy looking face is kind of a woman who seems to be saying, I'm so happy to see you. And the untrustworthy face is just kind of disgruntled, strong-looking guy. We can do this for any other judgment.
But I mean similar to say, like the "Dick in a Box" dudes. There is an untrustworthy narrator thing happening where my character, especially in the movie, is a bit of a dumbass. So his perspective, like he was saying, was able to be inappropriate because you don't forgive him it, but you're able to laugh at it because you're like,
So they'll create all kinds of justifications for why it was OK for them in the situation and how it doesn't reflect on the fact that they're an untrustworthy person but they can be untrustworthy. Now, in some way that's a good thing.
We're stuck with ourselves. If somebody else is untrustworthy, we can stop interacting with them. We can't stop interacting with ourself, and so we need to trust ourselves even when we make mistakes.
What would happen? Everybody would want to cooperate with you, more of them so they could probably take advantage of you because they know they could. Or if you were untrustworthy and you walked around with a big U on your forehead, well, everybody would ignore you. And nobody would cooperate with you.
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. What do you mean by untrustworthy?
And here I can create a caricature, because I can exaggerate this as much as I want. And here's your caricatures of an untrustworthy and a trustworthy looking face. So trustworthy looking face is kind of a woman who seems to be saying, I'm so happy to see you.
to kind of abdicate to to reject our surroundings and our possessions and our relationships as as insufficient or as potentially in insufficient and and therefore is untrustworthy and kind of kind of hold everything at arms length I'll get back to that in a minute but another answer is just to embrace it all just to even the stupid stuff like like Mall floors and even the things that
And so when we see people like Lance Armstrong or Bernie Madoff, you think, oh, it's something wrong. Those people are morally corrupt and untrustworthy. No, well, yes what they did was untrustworthy.
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. And the model that predicted untrustworthiness the best consisted of four cues, touching your hands, touching your face, crossing your arms, and leaning away.
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. When Nexi made the cues that signaled untrustworthiness in the human to human interactions, people reported trusting it less.
But really it's not about being in the 1%. It's not a birthright of the 1% that makes you untrustworthy. It's simply about money and power relative to those around you.
I mean, think about it, right? If touching my face means I'm going to be untrustworthy, if I do this, am I doing that because I've got an itch or because I'm going to cheat you?
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. The next person controls whether the robot gives these untrustworthy cues or other similar cues.
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. We showed that we had seen the cues that Nexi meant untrustworthy.
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. It means that I have the perfect trustworthy or untrustworthy person that I can show you.
So, again, it challenges belief in a just world. If the trauma or adversity involved another person who was untrustworthy that we trusted, it calls into question our ability to evaluate people and decide who is trustworthy and who isn't.
guru who tells you that you know, like women only want one thing or women only want men who are 666 and also all women are constantly sleeping around and are untrustworthy. And you know, you can call women foids and whatever, all of this stuff.
But here the MBA is not what you think it is. They tend to be more vigilant, untrusting of other people, a kind of holding mentality, very vigilant, and so on and so
And in those situations in which there was a cell phone sitting on the table, the pairs of people were something like 60% to 70% more likely to say the other person was unfriendly, untrustworthy, unempathetic, and unlikable. So I want you to think about how many times you've sat down to have lunch with a friend or something, and you just set your phone on the table,
This is work by my friend Paul Piff. He's a psychologist at Berkeley where he shows that higher SES correlates to increased untrustworthiness. But really it's not about being in the 1%.
You feel that pang of guilt. But what happens is you don't want to think of yourself as untrustworthy. And so your mind engages in this rationalization.
Because that lets you know even without turning around very quickly, there's something dangerous there. But trust isn't something that you want to communicate very easily or untrustworthiness. Why? I mean, imagine if you're trustworthy person and you had a clear tell.
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. And the robot will emit the cues and express the cues that we think signify untrustworthiness or not in a very, very precisely controllable way.
Um tend to see women as like not liking them, men bashing, um and also like kind of users and untrustworthy themselves. And I would say that a lot of this is fueled by social media, too.
The prediction market produces valuable kinds of outputs in a "wisdom of crowds" sense. I'm excited about where this could go because there are so many situations where either the gaps in trust or problems with untrustworthy entities are so significant that this
I want to come back to a couple other aspects of security, because I've been thinking about it a lot. actors were trustworthy, an inability to coordinate a global system in which people are definitionally untrustworthy, cryptographers tend
So I'll hand over to Oliver now to talk a bit more about some of our design process. Any questions? Did you often have to deal with untrustworthy data?
So if you look at narcissists, narcissists do better in job interviews, they do better on first dates. But what you see is after a few weeks on the job, narcissists are regarded as untrustworthy. After a few months, the relationship partners of narcissists report being enormously dissatisfied.
is identical, but the only thing that we are manipulating is the surface texture. And similarly, if we increase the faces in the directions of untrustworthiness, you get a much more masculine face. And here I can create a caricature, because I can exaggerate this as much as I want.
Adeola, if you don't mind. And I am just wondering, how do you deal with an untrusting manager or boss?
All Hollywood scripts follow this J-curve. Do I want to be right about this, that all men are untrustworthy, all will women are nuts, usually are the two that come out.
And so these are people who we asked them before, if you don't flip the coin, is that untrustworthy? They said, oh, it would be terribly untrustworthy. But they do it.
Those people are morally corrupt and untrustworthy. No, well, yes what they did was untrustworthy. But the same process-- on a smaller scale, of course, and we can only study on a smaller scale in the lab--
Because again, the fact that you can trust the blockchain itself, trust the ledger, doesn't mean you can trust the whole system. And in fact, we see all of these cases where this technology gets abused or used for very problematic, untrustworthy things. Still today, one of the, if not the biggest, use of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin for actual transactions is people who want to do illegal things--
Is there a continuous trust in mass media in our part of the world? I think there is more trust because the alternatives in, especially the Arabic language, have been so weak and are so untrustworthy. So I think that's when actually more legacy media, traditional media, mass media trust is there because the alternatives.
As Goring put it, an examination of these contrasted outlines shows most strikingly the difference between criminal types, as registered My other question is, how much do the kind of feature people interpret as, say, trustworthy or untrustworthy, how does that vary across cultures?
I'm going to get a reputation as being a cheater. But if I can get away with it, my mind, unbeknownst to me and my own moral codes that I endorse, will try to push me to be a bit untrustworthy. And so I want to suggest to all of you who think this can't happen to me and that you are completely honest
But they feel better about themselves. And so these are people who we asked them before, if you don't flip the coin, is that untrustworthy? They said, oh, it would be terribly untrustworthy.
So given all that, it would be nice if we could actually detect if somebody else was going to be trustworthy. Now, as I said at the beginning of this talk, people have been looking for the Holy Grail of what signifies deception or untrustworthiness for a long time.
And the tokens are worth $1 to each of them but $2 to their partner. No matter how much we're going to try and control it, which is why we could pick up on untrustworthiness.
Then you'll believe that they're dishonest, that they're untidy, untrustworthy, unreliable, can't manage their time, have poor self-control, possibly low IQ, and low
no longer Chief of the Fed or Secretary of Treasury. But it's very difficult for anyone in power to make a statement like that because it, it, it makes them appear untrustworthy