Papers
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Trust Will Decide the Robot Age — Not Capability
This paper is a public introduction to the trust question: why capability alone does not answer who a robot answers to or how a consequential decision can be checked. For product behavior, privacy commitments, verification, and current availability, use the linked public pages as the source of record.
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Trust Will Decide the Robot Age — Not Capability
Allan Watkins · Version 1.0 — 11 July 2026 · 21 min read
Why trust — not capability — is the gating problem of the robot age, and why it cannot come from the makers.
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When the Robot Is Wrong, Someone Pays
Allan Watkins · Version 1.1 — 13 July 2026 · 36 min read
Autonomous machines are starting to make real decisions right next to vulnerable people — and when one chooses wrongly, the only record of why is controlled by the very party whose product is on trial. This paper argues that this structural fact — not machine capability, and not regulation — is what makes the risk uninsurable today, and that the underwriters are the ones positioned to fix it.
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Further papers in this series are in preparation.