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PS-TRU-106 · r4 AUTOMATION TRUST INFERRED OBSERVED

TRUST CALIBRATION

Reliance settles at a level the function no longer deserves.

01   DEFINITION

Condition in which reliance on an automated function does not follow that function's actual reliability as the situation changes, in either direction.

02   CONDITIONS

UNCERTAINTY CONFLICTING Evidence for the function's reliability disagrees with itself.
TIME PRESSURE LOW There is time to verify, and verification does not happen.
ERROR ASYMMETRY SYMMETRIC Over-trust and under-trust carry comparable cost.
OPERATOR STATE SUPERVISORY The operator receives the function's output and judges on it.

03   WHERE IT APPEARS

INDUSTRIALAutomatic determination accuracy varies with conditions but is accepted uniformly.
RAILAn assisting function is reliable to different degrees by section, and is treated as one.
ENERGYThe error band of a forecasting function moves with the situation.

04   WHERE THIS IS SURFACING

What stays unresolved is how a function conveys its own current reliability — an account that moves often is discounted as noise, and one that holds steady is taken for a property of the function rather than of the moment.