Trust Forward Podcast

Trust is one of the strangest things about being human. It's completely invisible, entirely made up, and yet it holds all of society together.
Every time you hand over cash, cross the road, or click "buy," you're taking a small leap of faith that the whole system will hold. These are systems we've quietly built to make life with strangers possible. But trust is fragile, it has to be maintained or it breaks, and throughout history we've repeatedly had to rebuild it.
Over 6 episodes, host Mary-Ann Ochota talks to some of the world's sharpest minds, from poker players and astrophysicists to mafia experts and cryptographers, tracing how trust has evolved from the invention of money and the Scientific Revolution, through conmen to gossip and today's digital world.
Beneath every story sits the same question: how do we build the invisible agreements that hold society together?
Trust Forward is a podcast from Sumsub, AI powered trust infrastructure for compliance operations at scale.