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Delightful Intelligence
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Delightful Intelligence

by Ramli John, C. Todd Lombardo, Michael Connors
March 2027
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
3h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 5. Principle One: Trust by Design

This chapter opens Part Two of the book with the most fundamental principle of Delightful Intelligence: Trust by Design. Without trust, none of the other principles land. Through Marcus Chen’s story, where nine months of intimate ChatGPT conversations were destroyed in five minutes by a surveillance revelation, readers discover why trust is the foundation everything else is built on. The chapter introduces “Time to Trust” as the key metric for measuring trust through behavior rather than surveys, then explores three dimensions users must trust before AI can genuinely delight: Trust in Truth, Trust in Privacy, and Trust in Intent. Because delight without trust isn’t magic. It’s manipulation users eventually recognize and reject.

“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”

Louis Brandeis

Marcus Chen had been talking to ChatGPT for nine months before he learned the truth.

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