AI and Democracy's Digital Identity Crisis
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16115v1
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2023 14:15:18 GMT
- Title: AI and Democracy's Digital Identity Crisis
- Authors: Shrey Jain, Connor Spelliscy, Samuel Vance-Law, Scott Moore
- Abstract summary: Privacy-preserving identity attestations can drastically reduce instances of impersonation and make disinformation easy to identify and potentially hinder.
In this paper, we discuss attestation types, including governmental, biometric, federated, and web of trust-based.
We believe these systems could be the best approach to authenticating identity and protecting against some of the threats to democracy that AI can pose in the hands of malicious actors.
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- Abstract: AI-enabled tools have become sophisticated enough to allow a small number of
individuals to run disinformation campaigns of an unprecedented scale.
Privacy-preserving identity attestations can drastically reduce instances of
impersonation and make disinformation easy to identify and potentially hinder.
By understanding how identity attestations are positioned across the spectrum
of decentralization, we can gain a better understanding of the costs and
benefits of various attestations. In this paper, we discuss attestation types,
including governmental, biometric, federated, and web of trust-based, and
include examples such as e-Estonia, China's social credit system, Worldcoin,
OAuth, X (formerly Twitter), Gitcoin Passport, and EAS. We believe that the
most resilient systems create an identity that evolves and is connected to a
network of similarly evolving identities that verify one another. In this type
of system, each entity contributes its respective credibility to the
attestation process, creating a larger, more comprehensive set of attestations.
We believe these systems could be the best approach to authenticating identity
and protecting against some of the threats to democracy that AI can pose in the
hands of malicious actors. However, governments will likely attempt to mitigate
these risks by implementing centralized identity authentication systems; these
centralized systems could themselves pose risks to the democratic processes
they are built to defend. We therefore recommend that policymakers support the
development of standards-setting organizations for identity, provide legal
clarity for builders of decentralized tooling, and fund research critical to
effective identity authentication systems.
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