What comes after belief? | Seth’s Weblog

Stroll right into a financial institution with a stocking in your head and also you’re most likely going to get arrested.

Civil society as we all know it’s depending on identification and accountability. An individual does one thing and owns the implications. This requirement of identification results in the dynamic of the free market that we name belief.

Even firms, which aren’t individuals however currently have been given a lot of their privileges, sometimes need to pay the value for abusing our belief.

However what occurs when the e-mail, the essay, the voice, the interactions–aren’t from an individual, however from a swarm of bots? Is that actually Donny Osmond singing us Glad Birthday or a intelligent AI building?

[On the other hand, people are really making good use of the free AI on this blog–and so far, it’s pretty trustworthy.]

When the web started to chip away at our interpersonal relationships, we relied on model names or clues to determine what was actual. We invented captchas and filters to determine who or what was truthworthy.

A sure sort of belief is now not helpful. Egocentric hustlers are going to be one of many first large winners within the AI race, abusing programs that had been constructed on conventional concepts of identification and accountability.

Then what?

This can be a nice second to start out taking the query severely.