Weapons of Mass Disruption: Eurasia Group's #3 Top Risk of 2023

The rapid rise of AI could open the flood gate for tremendous amounts of content to be created, so much that it would be nearly impossible for people to navigate what is real and generated.

These advances represent a step-change in AI's potential to manipulate people and sow political chaos. When barriers to entry for creating content no longer exist, the volume of content rises exponentially, making it impossible for most citizens to reliably distinguish fact from fiction. Disinformation will flourish, and trust—the already-tenuous basis of social cohesion, commerce, and democracy—will erode further.

Ian Bremmer has been on a few podcasts talking about this as well. There he states it a little different, that we are entering a time where millions of people will not be able to know if they are talking to a person or a bot. I'd argue we are already there, but it is going to get even harder to impossible to know that in the future. The complete Top Risks of 2023 is worth reading as well.

There is a bit of good news. We do have a way to navigate this by using public key encryption and signing messages. I shared Sign Everything from Fred Wilson in Weekly Thing 237. We need to get moving to get our publishing platforms supporting the ability to sign what we create. Ethereum wallets, even without any funds in them, are fully capable of signing messages for free.