# Professor Vasant Dhar discusses the impact of trust on robo advising

1 Faculty News November 15, 2017 ![ThinkAdvisor logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/thinkadvisor-logo.jpg?itok=Bd2YxL1I)>

Excerpt from [ThinkAdvisor](http://www.thinkadvisor.com/2017/11/15/how-do-you-beat-a-robo-advisor-trust?page=2&slreturn=1510862577) -- “'Technology can surely create trust on its own in transporting us if our collective experience is that it rarely makes mistakes and doesn’t kill us. We’re not there yet,' \[[Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar)\] said. 'But in the world of investing, which is fraught with uncertainty and unpredictability, trust is indeed a lot harder to engender, but not impossible.'”

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