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by consumer451 112 days ago
A crazy thought I had is that agents without a link to human identity might need to be treated as illegal. That human identity would be blamed the for the agent's actions.

This raises a rats nest of issues, but will we be able to avoid this necessity?
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nottorp 112 days ago
I can think of a bunch of governments who would love that. Most are considered totaliarian.

So... you can't win.

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consumer451 112 days ago
Theoretically, if you did trust your government, couldn't zero-knowledge proofs be used to allow such a system? I am a dunce about this stuff, so genuinely asking.

Example that seems like it should be required for all age verification systems, if linkability is addressed:

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-secu...

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nottorp 112 days ago
> Theoretically, if you did trust your government,

Trust not to misuse my data intentionally?

Trust to not lose my data due to incompetence?

Trust to not subcontract this service to some spying company like Google?

> couldn't zero-knowledge proofs be used to allow such a system?

They could, but will they really be zero knowledge or there will be some intermediary leftovers that aren't zero knowledge? See trust in competence above.

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