Part 2
When Looking Like You Is No Longer Proof
Can deepfakes fool identity verification? Yes, when synthetic faces, voices, and ID images arrive together. How remote proofing works, where it weakens, and what still holds.
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Artificial Intelligence & Society
Artificial Intelligence & Society is Andrew Drasen's essay series on how AI reshapes identity, trust, institutions, and human accountability when software gains power through permission, speed, and scale. It is not a gadget story. It asks who we trust, what we automate, and how institutions keep responsibility attached to people and organizations — supporting advancement while arguing for proportional safeguards against foreseeable harm.
Opening trilogy
- Part 1 The AI Identity Problem System trusts the wrong account Published
- Part 2 When Looking Like You Is No Longer Proof System trusts the wrong person Published
- Part 3 The Identity Recovery Trap The real person becomes the anomaly Published
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Browse by subject
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Digital Identity
Delegated accounts, permission chains, recovery failures, and who institutions recognize as the real person.
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Synthetic Verification
When cloned face, voice, documents, and liveness signals can pass high-assurance identity checks.
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Deepfakes & Public Truth
When video and audio can no longer prove an event happened, and real evidence is dismissed as fake.
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Work & Ownership
Optional labor, who owns productive machines, and whether abundance is shared or concentrated.
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Meaning & Purpose
Identity, structure, and fulfillment when survival work no longer organizes daily life.
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Education & Human Development
Personalized learning, curiosity, and the schools that must change when knowledge is instant.
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Medicine & Science
Discovery acceleration, personalized medicine, and who gets access to breakthroughs.
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Law & Power
Regulation, democratic oversight, infrastructure ownership, and accountability at speed.
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Humanity's Future
Civilizational development, human evolution alongside machines, and long-horizon philosophical questions.
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Part 3
The Identity Recovery Trap
After a Meta Business Suite phishing attack locked me out of a nearly twenty-year Facebook account, recovery took months. The hard part was not the password. It was proving I was me inside automated support.
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Part 2
When Looking Like You Is No Longer Proof
Can deepfakes fool identity verification? Yes, when synthetic faces, voices, and ID images arrive together. How remote proofing works, where it weakens, and what still holds.
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Part 1
The AI Identity Problem: Can AI Agents Hijack Your Digital Identity?
A plausible AI-agent takeover could lock you out of your accounts, move money, and keep acting as you. What is possible now, and how do we prevent it?