  Of course, one could reasonably question whether it is possible for humans to enter into a trust relationship with an SEC, as a corporate entity, or even with a non-human entity of any kind. For example, some might assume that a genuine trust relationship can only exist between humans (or perhaps more specifically, between “human agents”). Others, however, believe that trust relationships can be extended to include some non-human, or “artificial,” agents—i.e., not only corporations, which are sometimes viewed as aggregates of human agents, but also artificial electronic agents such as “bots.” Because issues affecting trust and responsibility for SECs are distributed over a vast and diffuse network, many diverse kinds of agents can be involved—e.g., from corporate CEOs and executives/boards, to customer-service representatives, to engineers and software developers, to the many (non-human) artificial (AI) agents or bots that can also “make some limited decisions” on behalf of an SEC. So what, exactly, is it that we trust/distrust when we say we trust/distrust an SEC? In claiming to trust Google, for example, we may, in effect, be saying that we trust all of the component elements comprising that SEC.