Tech Giants And AI Researchers Propose Digital ID Requirements To Use The Internet, But Admit It Restricts Liberties

A number of technology-based academics, including MIT and Oxford, and representatives from big tech companies such as OpenAI and Microsoft contend that implementing a universal digital ID system should be put in place in order to use the internet and social media, which they claim would be used to stop fraud and phishing and guarantee one’s identity and protection.

The 24 contributing authors penned a recently published paper called “Personhood credentials: Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online.”

They summarized their proposal in the abstract, which says:

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Anonymity is an important principle online. However, malicious actors have long used misleading identities to conduct fraud, spread disinformation, and carry out other deceptive schemes. With the advent of increasingly capable AI, bad actors can amplify the potential scale and effectiveness of their operations, intensifying the challenge of balancing anonymity and trustworthiness online.

In this paper, we analyze the value of a new tool to address this challenge: “personhood credentials” (PHCs), digital credentials that empower users to demonstrate that they are real people—not AIs—to online services, without disclosing any personal information. Such credentials can be issued by a range of trusted institutions—governments or otherwise.

A PHC system, according to our definition, could be local or global, and does not need to be biometrics-based. Two trends in AI contribute to the urgency of the challenge: AI’s increasing indistinguishability (i.e., lifelike content and avatars, agentic activity) from people online, and AI’s increasing scalability (i.e., cost-effectiveness, accessibility).

Drawing on a long history of research into anonymous credentials and “proof-of-personhood” systems, personhood credentials give people a way to signal their trustworthiness on online platforms, and offer service providers new tools for reducing misuse by bad actors.

In contrast, existing countermeasures to automated deception such as CAPTCHAs—are inadequate against sophisticated AI, while stringent identity verification solutions are insufficiently private for many use-cases. After surveying the benefits of personhood credentials, we also examine deployment risks and design challenges.

We conclude with actionable next steps for policymakers, technologists, and standards bodies to consider in consultation with the public.

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However, this proposal is not without its downsides, as the authors admit that implementing a ubiquitous digital ID would greatly diminish civil liberties. They wrote:

Maintaining a one-per-person per-issuer credential limit helps to balance the ecosystem’s goals: attaining reasonable limits on the scale of deceptive activity any person can carry out, while preserving a meaningful degree of choice for users.

We argue that this balance is achieved when there are multiple issuers, each of which limits the number of credentials a person can receive from them. Each person can then obtain a bounded number of credentials—more than one, to counter risks to privacy and civil liberties, but not so many that the credential loses its ability to prevent scaled deception.

SEE: The World Economic Forum Advocates Merging Artificial And Human Intelligence To Censor ‘Misinformation’ And ‘Hate Speech’

In short, the authors conclude that “governments, technologists, and standards bodies” should prioritize adapting already existing systems and invest in new methods to accommodate these new “personhood credentials.”

The authors cite the European Union’s digital wallet as an example of this prioritization. “Many organizations are already working on best practices for issuing, authenticating, and presenting digital credentials—the EU Digital Identity Wallet Consortium is a prominent example—and these initiatives can more directly prepare for highly capable AI,” the authors said.

SEE: European Union Releases All-In-One Digital ID Wallet Tied To CBDCs – Precursor To Social Credit Scores

Earlier this year on the campaign trail, Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina Governor and former United Nations Ambassador under Trump, advocated for a digital national registry to use social media, combat “misinformation” and tackle “antisemitism.”

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

In my article covering neocon Haley’s draconian remarks – who little Ben Shapiro once said was his “spirit animal” – I wrote:

What Haley is saying is a formality whether Americans realize it or not. She is letting the cat out of the bag. We know (those that have been following The WinePress) that the digital IDs are right around the corner, and they will take the place for this verification process she is speaking of. Moreover, I have detailed that internet behavioral scores are coming, as laid-out by the World Economic Forum and their “Digital Quotient” system; which will either be that or something like it coming in the near future. SEE: The DQ Institute: The Social Credit Score To Become A Global Citizen To Use The Internet

Moreover, as I have articulated in other articles my thoughts about a lot of these crypto and NFT scams, I have said:

‘I’ve binged watched a lot of videos by a YouTuber named Coffeezilla, and he is legitimately one of the last real honest investigative journalists out there; and he primarily exposes a lot of these crypto, NFT, Ponzi, and get rich quick schemes on his channel. He has heavily advocated for government regulation into this industry to prevent these nefarious scams. And while I am usually very much against the government increasing it’s power and scale even more than it already is, after watching his content, I am more than persuaded that regulation needs to be there.’

However, I think this was the plan all along. Feel free to call me a tinhat conspiracy theorist, but I think a lot of these crypto and NFT scams were created on purpose by these psychos in the government and central banks, paying out celebrities and other entrepreneurs to shill these coins, pump & dump and rug pull them, wait for the fallout and cries for regulation, and then incomes the central banks and world governments with their regulations that basically shut down the space; while at the same time implementing the CBDCs as the replacement, now that people’s interest and familiarity was peaked.’

SEE: Be Careful Of Crypto Scams, Especially On Twitter And Social Media

So, when these authors are referencing the EU’s digital wallet, which is a blatant step towards CBDCs and tokenization, then you now understand how it’s all connected and how it will be shoved on the masses in order to operate in society.

Psalm 31:6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD. [7] I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou hast considered my trouble; thou hast known my soul in adversities;

Rough waters are indeed approaching, and we will need the Lord to guide us and protect us more than ever. But as I have said, our days to freely use the internet are dwindling…

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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