Leveson-Based Trade Assessment Scale
The 5-star rating scale was created as a promotion tool the Mobil Oil Corporation (now ExxonMobil) for their Mobil Travel Guide to rate hotels and restaurants along popular highway routes. LBTAS was created to give constructive feedback to aerospace software engineers about the quality of their code. Both of these systems might be considered "open-source" but only one was designed to build collective intelligence. The other is a gimmick allowing producers to game consumers across the internet's major retail platforms.
About LBTAS
Lead Developer
Jodson Graves, ChatGPT
Jodson Graves prompted ChatGPT to code MIT Professor Nancy Leveson's Software Assessment Scale in 2024 after reading about it in Computational Thinking by Matti Tedre and Peter Denning.
Applications
Public Reputation System for Digital Interactions
The system is applied bi-directionally within the Agrinet as a public reputation system for producers and consumers, promoting high quality and civility across the network
How to Get Involved
Whether you're fundraising, coding or just providing automation assistance you can support LBTAS by joining NTARI's Slack workspace, or applying the software yourself. Get it on Github
