Rachel Botsman
Lecturer, Oxford Saïd Business School. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Rachel Botsman is a trust researcher and author credited with popularizing the sharing economy in What's Mine Is Yours. She designed Oxford University's first courses on trust in the digital world and wrote Who Can You Trust? and How to Trust & Be Trusted.
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Everything Rachel Botsman said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Botsman: Gen Z trusts information based on emotion, not source credibility
“And the thing that has changed is that they are now forming opinions or arguments based on how they feel in that moment. It's not to do with what's being said or who's being said. It's based on how it makes them feel.”
Botsman: AI shifts technological trust from capability to human character traits
“For such a long period of history, we've trusted the technology to do something. And now we're testing, trusting technology to decide something and to create something. And the reason why this is so important for entrepreneurs and designers and business leader…”
Botsman: AI excels at cognitive empathy because it avoids emotional overwhelm
“So the fact that it can't absorb emotions, that it doesn't get flooded, allows it to be empathetic in a way that humans can't, like whether you're a therapist or whether you're a doctor. And the interesting question is whether, where it stops. So it's really g…”
Botsman: No platform has figured out how to signal trustworthy information
“What no one has figured out is how do you really signal trustworthy information?”
Botsman: Tech platforms profit heavily from untrustworthy content creators
“These platforms make a lot of money of people who are not trustworthy to give that kind of information.”
Botsman: Defensiveness in meetings is a sign of engagement and trust
“So in that meeting, you'd actually want people to be defensive because they're engaged and that's a sign of trust.”
Botsman: Disenchanted Team Members Need to Be Let Go
“And then the disenchantment, I mean, personally, I think people need to go.”
Botsman: The primary issue for AI companies is excessive user trust
“I don't actually think That how do you get people to trust us is the problem. I think too much trust is the problem is the first thing I'd say.”
Botsman: AI company misalignment with users will only worsen over time
“Where as you, as a company, are you not aligned? With the best interests of your users, of the people that you serve, of the people providing the inputs and the information, because those misalignment problems, they're integrity issues, and they are not going …”
Botsman: Trust is fundamentally a confident relationship with the unknown
“So my basic definition of trust is that trust is a confident relationship with the unknown.”
Botsman: Traditional institutions face trust crisis due to top-down design
“Trust is in crisis in traditional institutions. We all know that, but the reason why it's in crisis when you separate our individual characters is because many of those systems and many of those structures have a design problem when it comes to trust in that t…”
Botsman: Trust has evolved across three eras to modern distributed trust
“History has gone through three chapters of trust, local, institutional, and what we're now in is distributed.”
Botsman: 80% of Humans Are Naturally Trusting
“Most of us, 80% of us, are naturally trusting human beings. Our propensity is to give trust.”
Botsman: Frictionless Tech Accelerates Hasty Trust Decisions
“Everything is designed around speed and efficiency. I mean, you talk to most entrepreneurs, it's about taking out the friction. And so, we don't realize that process of, like, literally giving our trust away has been sped up and accelerated, and we don't take …”
Botsman: Oxford graduate students struggle to distinguish facts from opinions
“I even see this, you know, I get to lecture at Oxford, and I even see this in graduate students, where you're still pointing out that distinction.”
Botsman: Distrust escalates faster remotely because people fill in blanks
“And what we're seeing is, like, that cycle of, from defensiveness to disenchantment, it goes a lot quicker without, again, the physical face-to-face contact, because when you're removed from one another, you fill in the blanks.”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Rachel's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER | Lecturer, Oxford Saïd Business School | 1 | 17 | — | full record on Masters of Scale → |