How will they sell digital ID to you? How are your fingerprints and facial template scans forged into a biometric identity? How does generative AI serve multiple technocratic agendas?
Really well presented. Lots of great links to resources, so this might take a while to go through all of it. A BritCard? Didn't know! Those Poor Bastards.
Wouldn't all this be for naught if we just used Deepfake detection software?
It wouldn't solve the need to turn humanity into a bunch of cattle, like they've done in China. But, at least I would stop getting those annoying calls from my long dead grandmother, asking for bail money.
I have some hopes that when AI really does become indistinguishable from reality, then humans, as a cunning species, will come to realize that the only thing that is trustworthy is a face-to-face meeting. So the entire digital world will become irrelevant apart from entertainment.
If the cops show me a CCTV video of me behaving inappropriately in a London store, say, my smart lawyer will claim that the video is AI-faked, and challenge the cops to prove that it is real, which they cannot do. It is, in effect, planted evidence of a digital kind. And a jury of my peers will be on my side.
Alternatively, I could AI-fake a video showing that I was in Ulaan-Baatar railway station at the time of the offence, and challenge the cops to prove otherwise.
AI certainly can be a tool of the repressive State, but I think there are also opportunities to blunt that tool.
At least right now, it's fairly easy for cops to "prove" the video is real, meaning it can send you to jail. The government testifies how the system was set up, how it's secure, how there have been no breaches, how there was a line of custody, etc. The government passed rules saying this is acceptable.
You can claim AI, but I wouldn't trust my peers to go against the government. So many jurors after watching CSI considered themselves experts in forensics and accepted those claims as stated, even though it's a really shoddy science.
Really well presented. Lots of great links to resources, so this might take a while to go through all of it. A BritCard? Didn't know! Those Poor Bastards.
Wouldn't all this be for naught if we just used Deepfake detection software?
It wouldn't solve the need to turn humanity into a bunch of cattle, like they've done in China. But, at least I would stop getting those annoying calls from my long dead grandmother, asking for bail money.
I have some hopes that when AI really does become indistinguishable from reality, then humans, as a cunning species, will come to realize that the only thing that is trustworthy is a face-to-face meeting. So the entire digital world will become irrelevant apart from entertainment.
If the cops show me a CCTV video of me behaving inappropriately in a London store, say, my smart lawyer will claim that the video is AI-faked, and challenge the cops to prove that it is real, which they cannot do. It is, in effect, planted evidence of a digital kind. And a jury of my peers will be on my side.
Alternatively, I could AI-fake a video showing that I was in Ulaan-Baatar railway station at the time of the offence, and challenge the cops to prove otherwise.
AI certainly can be a tool of the repressive State, but I think there are also opportunities to blunt that tool.
At least right now, it's fairly easy for cops to "prove" the video is real, meaning it can send you to jail. The government testifies how the system was set up, how it's secure, how there have been no breaches, how there was a line of custody, etc. The government passed rules saying this is acceptable.
You can claim AI, but I wouldn't trust my peers to go against the government. So many jurors after watching CSI considered themselves experts in forensics and accepted those claims as stated, even though it's a really shoddy science.