Marc Andreessen's Right
Updated April 21, 2024
Today, Marc published an essay on "Why AI Will Save the World". I strongly urge readers to read it. Why?
Why AI Can Make Everything We Care About Better
In this section of his essay, he states:
"What AI offers us is the opportunity to profoundly augment human intelligence to make all of these outcomes of intelligence – and many others, from the creation of new medicines to ways to solve climate change to technologies to reach the stars – much, much better from here."
He then goes on to give examples about in our new era of AI....
Learning
"Every child will have an AI tutor that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, infinitely helpful. The AI tutor will be by each child’s side every step of their development, helping them maximize their potential with the machine version of infinite love."
THIS IS WHAT I'VE ALREADY ARCHITECTED!!!!!! I've called it a DLT (Digital Learning Twin). Skim these two vision articles:
AI Assistant
"Every person will have an AI assistant/coach/mentor/trainer/advisor/therapist that is infinitely patient, infinitely compassionate, infinitely knowledgeable, and infinitely helpful. The AI assistant will be present through all of life’s opportunities and challenges, maximizing every person’s outcomes."
THIS IS WHAT I'VE ALSO ALREADY ARCHITECTED!!!!!! I've called it a PIAM (Personal Identity Access Management). Skim “An Identity Day in the Life of Jane Doe” to see how Jane Doe leverages her AI in her daily life.
AI Risk #5: Will AI Lead To Bad People Doing Bad Things?
"For example, if you are worried about AI generating fake people and fake videos, the answer is to build new systems where people can verify themselves and real content via cryptographic signatures. Digital creation and alteration of both real and fake content was already here before AI; the answer is not to ban word processors and Photoshop – or AI – but to use technology to build a system that actually solves the problem.
And so, second, let’s mount major efforts to use AI for good, legitimate, defensive purposes. Let’s put AI to work in cyberdefense, in biological defense, in hunting terrorists, and in everything else that we do to keep ourselves, our communities, and our nation safe."
I'VE ARCHITECTED FOR THIS TOO!!!!! From cradle to grave, each of us would have our own legal digital signature we control and use. So, in the Jane Doe story referenced above go to the section titled, "Jane Defends Herself Against a Malicious Deep Fake Video". It describes how Jane leverages her digital signatures and PIAM to detect deep fakes and misinformation. It also shows the juridical system leveraging AI to combat the Evil Inc.'s producing the deep fakes and misinformation.
What Marc Didn't Discuss - Ability to Determine Friend From Foe
This is the starting point in creating a new AI system, bot and AI leveraged, smart digital identity framework. it's darned complicated to do this. Why?
Speed At Which Entities Are Created
Skim “A Whopper Sized Problem- AI Systems/Bots Beginnings & Endings”. The three-year costs are between $1.15-1.85 billion. It may cost more.
Hives
Skim “Hives, AI, Bots & Humans - Another Whopper Sized Problem". This is something most people don't see coming. It will require:
AI, Leveraged Smart Digital Identities of Us Require Legal Identification
Skim “AI Leveraged Smart Digital Identities of Us”. Where risk warrants it, these require legal identities tied to our underlying legal physical identity. The current legal identity framework around the planet is pathetic and not even remotely prepared for this. To see why I can say this skim Problems 1 and 2 in “Legal Identity Problem Statements”.
Ability to Enforce AI Laws and Regs Across Jurisdictions
Skim "Fighting cybercrime – what happens to the law when the law cannot be enforced?". It shows the current pathetic, paltry 0.05% success rate of prosecuting cybercrimes. Why is this? The Evil Inc.s of the planet operate out of jurisdictions where they can't be successfully prosecuted. Thus, they'll merrily wave their middle fingers at AI laws and regs, while literally making tens of billions of dollars or more per year off of us.
I've written I can see trade agreements between countries being changed allowing for cross-jurisdictional prosecution of cyber/identity crimes. While cynical people, might righftully think I'm daydreaming, the rapidly changing times will force governments into this.
Speed of Change
Marc's right about rapid innovation. Yet, there's risks that come with this. Look at this curve. It means the Evil Inc.'s of the planet will leverage it to produce each day/week, new attack vectors against not only the tech used in legal identity, but also the governance, business processes and end users (be they human, AI systems or bots).
My premise? Most local jurisdictions around the planet DON'T have the resources, expertise or budgets at continually defend. Thus, the architecture proposed leverages two new, global, non-profits, which are very well funded, to do 24x7x365 threat analysis against the legal identity and learning architectures.
Then There's Yet Another Whopper Sized AI Problem - Power Consumption
Look at Figure 1 in "AI Power Consumption Exploding". It shows, if current AI power consumption trends continue, by 2040-ish AI will be consuming most of the planet's power. Of course, this is untenable. Yet, very sadly, it's not even on most people's and policy makers radar screens.
It's on mine. Why?
I"m proposing giving each person on the planet their own AI leveraged PIAM and DLT. Billions of these entities will be consuming power. Which is why in pages 322-323 in "Cost Centres – Rethinking Legal Identity & Learning Vision" doc, you'll see me allocating funds to quickly study this and come up with innovative ways to scale at low power consumption at the planetary level to the billions of people. You might want to skim “Decentralized AI – Risks, Legal Identity, Consent & Privacy” to see one possible direction to explore.
It Requires Out of the Box Thinking For Our Out of the Box Times
To see my message to government leaders skim “Why Should Your Government Fund The Architectures?”. To dive to the details skim these articles:
WAY TO GO MARC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
About Guy Huntington
I'm an identity trailblazing problem solver. My past clients include Boeing, Capital One and the Government of Alberta's Digital Citizen Identity & Authentication project. Many of my past projects were leading edge at the time in the identity/security space. I've spent the last eight years working my way through creating a new legal identity architecture and leveraging this to then rethink learning.
I've also done a lot in education as a volunteer over my lifetime. This included chairing my school district's technology committee in the 90's - which resulted in wiring most of the schools with optic fiber, behind building a technology leveraged school, and past president of Skills Canada BC and Skills Canada.
I do short term consulting for Boards, C-suites and Governments, assisting them in readying themselves for the arrival of AI systems, bots and AI leveraged, smart digital identities of humans.
I've written LOTS about the change coming. Skim the over 100 LinkedIn articles I've written, or my webpage with lots of papers.
Quotes I REALLY LIKE!!!!!!:
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An Identity Day in The Life:
My Message To Government & Industry Leaders:
National Security:
Rethinking Legal Identity, Credentials & Learning:
Learning Vision:
Creativity:
AI Agents:
Recommended by LinkedIn
Architecture:
AI/Human Legal Identity/Learning Cost References
AI Leveraged, Smart Digital Identities of Humans:
CISO's:
Companies, C-Suites and Boards:
Legal Identity & TODA:
Enterprise Articles:
Rethinking Enterprise Architecture In The Age of AI:
LLC's & AI:
Challenges With AI:
New Security Model:
DAO:
Kids:
Sex:
Schools:
Biometrics:
Legal Identity:
Identity, Death, Laws & Processes:
Open Source:
Notaries:
Climate Change, Migration & Legal Identity:
Fraud/Crime:
Behavioral Marketing:
AI Systems and Bots:
Contract Law:
Insurance:
Health:
AI/AR/VR Metaverse Type Environments:
SOLICT:
EMP/HEMP Data Centre Protection:
Climate:
A 100,000-Foot Level Summary Of Legal Human Identity
A 100,000-Foot Level Summary Of The Learning Vision: