The three-day international workshop aims to explore the issue of trust and distrust in connection to the diffusion and adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence, Automated Decision-Making Systems, and other types of AI systems in various societal domains, including work and labor, politics and journalism, healthcare and education, creative industries and media industries among others.

The debate about AI is thriving, with speculations about its future pointing towards many directions and possibilities. Some argue for an imminent further development of AI that will bring strong disruption to societies, while others do not attribute the same disruptive potential to AI.

A crucial matter in this debate that deserves to be discussed more thoroughly is how different types of actors in societies experience AI and decide to trust it or, on the contrary, distrust it in their daily practices. A related topic is to what extent and how the diffusion and adoption of AI might change the trust and mistrust that different social actors have in various societal institutions, including news media organizations and news outlets, political parties and politicians, public bodies, and, more broadly speaking, the functioning of democracies at large.