The Veracity Grand Challenge in Computing: A Perspective from Aotearoa New Zealand

The New Zealand government identified numerous challenges related to trust and truth in the context of digital technologies. These challenges result from an ever-increasing amount of online social networks, end-to-end digital supply chains, automated decision-making tools, generative artificial intelligence (AI), and cyber-physical systems. Such challenges impact people's lives across professional and private contexts and led to the Veracity Projecta 2021–2024. Outside the field of computing, veracity is not a common term in everyday language. One dictionary definition is "conformity with truth or fact."b