Elliott Hauser

1 Introduction Autonomous robots are built to operate without direct human oversight. Unlike social robots, which are developed primarily to engage humans in social interaction, autonomous robots encompass a broader category of machines that navigate and complete tasks independently. Common examples of autonomous systems include food delivery robots navigating sidewalks and quadruped robots operating in unstructured spaces.

Abstract Information systems serve as the “source of truth” for much of social reality, from credit scores to eligibility for boarding an airplane to the current time. In contexts of practical consensus, the system makes it so. I label this phenomenon system-dependent truth. This paper advances a theory of performative truthmaking, wherein the agencies of giving as and taking as produce facts and truth as relations.