(Re)Building Trustworthy Institutions with Nathan Kinch
From Humans On The Loop by Michael Garfield
March 11, 2026 · 1h 26m · Season 2 · Episode 32
About this episode
The episode features a conversation with Nathan Kinch about rebuilding trust in institutions and the role of ethics in organizational design.
Today’s very overdue conversation is with AI ethicist and organizational trust expert Nathan Kinch of Trustworthy By Design ( Website | LinkedIn ), asking questions like: How do institutions made of decent, well-meaning people continue to behave out of alignment with their stated values? How do we dig ourselves out of a catastrophic collapse in trust? How can we design practical, participatory “living labs” for organizational reflection and facilitate convivial, playful environments for working together? “Certainly one of the world’s leading figures on ethics in practical applications.”— Fionn Delahunty, NLP Lab at University of Galway As we frequently observe on this show, we need to rework our ideas of agency and identity to adapt them to advances in our understanding of complex systems. Decisions emerge within a nexus of nested, multi-scale dynamics, and our species flourishes or fumbles in intricate symbiotic relationships with the collective intelligences embodied in cultural technologies like states, markets, corporations, and social clubs — beings that, by any reasonable account, live in worlds alien to our own lived experience and demonstrate their own goals and values…
People in this episode
Host: Michael Garfield
Guest: Nathan Kinch
Topics covered
- trust
- AI ethics
- organizational behavior
- institutional design
- collaborative environments
Keywords
- trustworthy institutions
- AI ethics
- organizational trust
- participatory design
- complex systems
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Trustworthy By Design, NLP Lab at University of Galway
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