Abstract
How the transformation of modern societies continues in the coming years depends very centrally on the development, implementation and social control of GNR technologies (the combination of genetic, nano and robotic technologies). The discussion on artificial intelligence that has taken place over the last decade has found a new arena, as it were, with the field of robotics technology and has shifted to this area. Here, fundamental, also pedagogically central questions, such as that of a concept of person, are now being discussed (cf. Richards et al. 2002). Central concerns based on the dangers associated with the new technologies have been raised again and again (Joy 2000; Moravec 1999). Without wishing to reconstruct this ramified debate here, one finding can be highlighted in general terms: To the extent that societies are experiencing a surge in complexity due to the use of new technologies, which is having an impact on the life worlds of individual people, a "mechanism" of sociality is increasingly becoming the focus of attention: trust. It is not only from the perspective used here that this resource becomes precarious. Rather, since the beginning of the nineteen-nineties, there has been an increase in publications on the topic of trust from various perspectives, namely in sociology, pedagogy, philosophy, political science and economics. Trust is seen as an elementary prerequisite of social processes. However, if trust can no longer be understood as a self-evident prerequisite of social processes, measures to build trust accumulate, the phenomenon of trust thus becomes the focus of systematic reflection.
