Joshua Peterson, an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, secured funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for an 18-month project called "Predicting Algorithmic Trust at Scale." The project aims to build a Trust Score that predicts how much people will rely on an AI system to make decisions for them. Researchers will run large experiments across finance, law, and medicine, generating thousands of decision problems. Princeton University leads the effort with NYU and Cornell. Peterson's BU team will study tasks drawn from decision-making research in psychology and economics.