# Trust Forward

A podcast by Sumsub. 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. That's what this series is about: trust, making it and breaking it. Over six episodes, anthropologist and archaeologist 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, pirates and spies, 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, and how do we decide what, and who, to believe? Trust Forward is a podcast from Sumsub, AI powered trust infrastructure for compliance operations at scale, made in collaboration with This is…

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## Latest episodes

- [The Gossip Machine](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6793086211/ba9356aacb10) (2026-10-27, 30 min): audio https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6a5f496c1e00545615570ba9/e/6ada256e13113bbc76358fbd/media.mp3
- [The Code of the Underworld](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6793086211/205f597672f0) (2026-10-13, 33 min): audio https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6a5f496c1e00545615570ba9/e/6accd6365f788808a712c34b/media.mp3
- [The Art Of The Con](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6793086211/2492d99400c4) (2026-09-29, 26 min): audio https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6a5f496c1e00545615570ba9/e/6aba1a5e5410c8e94c28bdbf/media.mp3
- [Trust Me, I’m a Scientist](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6793086211/4aada48efa55) (2026-09-15, 33 min): audio https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6a5f496c1e00545615570ba9/e/6aa3bd3cff74edfd005e8421/media.mp3
- [Money Is A Made-Up Thing](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6793086211/cbd63dcbf6db) (2026-09-01, 31 min): audio https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6a5f496c1e00545615570ba9/e/6a918de463de6f7b41369efc/media.mp3
- [Trust Forward - A History Podcast - Coming September 1st](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6793086211/e30dba6b864b) (2026-08-14, 1 min): audio https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6a5f496c1e00545615570ba9/e/6a7f0c5e83128ee3d2466456/media.mp3

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