Brilliant quote!

At the end of the 1960s, digital identity had a problem: to verify identity, the system must know the secret; but if the system knows the secret, the secret can be stolen.

If AI generates the content, trains on that content, then deploys agents to navigate that content on your behalf—at what point does your identity become whatever the model consensus decides you are?

Here's a fictional take on it, yet sadly based on real events: https://syntheticauth.ai/posts/synthetic-auth-the-power-prob...

Here's an entertaining take that flows with this topic: https://syntheticauth.ai/posts/synthetic-auth-the-power-prob...

The "AI Agents As Employees" paper: - Promises explainability, admits black boxes - Calls them teammates, admits they can't reciprocate - Proposes social contracts with non-agents - 57 pages, 100 words on identity management Words matter when liability follows.