Thanks to the conveners of this 2025 SoDa | ASA Symposium: In Celebration of Privacy Week for inviting me to contribute. I really appreciate the invitation to weigh in on the role of the ethical statistical practitioner in promoting trust! I do want to clarify that “trust *in LLMs*” isn’t what I intended for this talk’s focus – it’s very healthy for people to feel compelled to verify whatever an LLM returns – i.e., not to trust them implicitly. What I meant is that, if statistics practitioners are USING LLMs or developing LLMs, they want to maintain the public trust in the existence of, and work by, ethical statistical practitioners. 1 From Dialogue to Data: How Statisticians Can Safeguard Privacy and Promote Trust in (the era of) LLMs Rochelle Tractenberg, Georgetown University https://ethicalreasoning.org/about-rochelle/ https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014ReKQAA0/rochelle-tractenberg SoDa | ASA Privacy Week Symposium 28 January 2025 ~ Virtual © 2025 RE Tractenberg~ CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International) ~ Privacy Week Seminar SoDA+ASA 28 Jan 2025 p. 1