This paper addresses the question of trust in communication, or mediated trust, with regard to the historical evolution of the Internet and, more recently, debates around the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI). At a conceptual level, it proposes a ‘Three I's’ framework of ideas, interests, and institutions as a way of understanding how and why current proposals for greater regulation of digital platforms counterpose questions around credibility and social licence for digital tech giants against a dominant set of ideas around the Internet as a privileged domain of free speech. By contrast, the rise of AI comes at a time when data‐driven business models associated with dominant platform businesses are in the ascendancy, so institutional arrangements need to be considered as a form of countervailing power to the capacity of tech giants to use AI to further consolidate forms of economic, political and communications power.

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中介信任、互联网和人工智能：思想、利益、制度和未来

本文讨论了通信中的信任问题，或中介信任问题，涉及互联网的历史演变，以及最近围绕人工智能 (AI) 影响的争论。在概念层面上，它提出了一个由思想、利益和机构组成的“三个 I”框架，作为理解当前加强数字平台监管的提议如何以及为何针对数字科技巨头的可信度和社会许可问题与占主导地位的公司进行对抗的方式。围绕互联网作为言论自由特权领域的一系列想法。相比之下，人工智能的兴起正值与主导平台业务相关的数据驱动的商业模式处于优势之际，因此制度安排需要被视为一种对抗科技巨头利用人工智能的能力的形式。进一步巩固各种形式的经济、政治和通讯力量。