Qualification: Modelling Trust in Artificial Agents, A First Step Toward the Analysis of e-Trust

Record: kaal:position:2026-08-08-260 · 2026-08-08

Taddeo describes one-shot interaction as very common in distributed artificial-agent systems and argues that an agent's trustworthiness can be assessed from its past performance without repeated interaction with the same counterpart. This independently qualifies Kaal's stronger formulation: the source supports the prevalence of one-shot agent encounters and the need for portable performance history, but it does not establish that every agent interaction is one-shot or that one-shot interaction is literally universal by default.

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Current debate

Modelling Trust in Artificial Agents, A First Step Toward the Analysis of e-Trust

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:7260278-002
Wulf A. Kaal, Paper 2 - Architecture of the Agentic Reputation Substrate (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7260278
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Review tier: independent substantive scholarly-growth qualification
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Mapping ambiguous: false

Topics

ai-and-agentsrisk-and-incentivesscholarly-growth-coveragescholarly-literaturetrust-and-reputationmulti-agent-systems

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-08-10:scholarly-growth-7260278-002-reviewed-v1 on 2026-08-08. Review record.

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