March 31, 2023 update - I strongly suggest readers skim these recent articles on Ai governance and examples of change:
The world is awash in change. Examples include quantum computing, metaverse creations, global warming, pandemic, distance learning, cybersex, etc. Ironically, until the change directly affects us, we keep doing what we're doing. That's why I selected the pic above.
Challenges
Not only do we have to change the way we live due to global warming, but we also have to rethink our underlying legal identity structures. Why? We live on a very small planet, yet we have each jurisdiction on the planet (think state/province) doing their own thing regarding legal identity. It's creating what I call in my head a "whopper pain in the legal ass". For example:
- When your young child logs on to a VR sex website, how can you protect them? There's no easy way today to protect them by having them prove, anonymously, they're of legal age of consent, which works physically/digitally anywhere around the planet.
- Or consider you wanting to easily prove you've had your Covid vaccination, when applying for a job online. Today, there's no easy way for you to prove this across all the many different jurisdictions around the planet, that's attached to your legal identity.
- Or consider identity theft. In the US alone, it's just shy of a $17 billion dollar fraud industry. Even worse, 1 million kids a year have their legal identity stolen, used by criminals to bilk credit card companies of around $13,000. Your child only realizes this, years later, when they try to get a credit card, open up a bank account, etc.
- Or consider the emerging new learning environments of AI/AR/VR. How can you easily know if the avatars you're dealing with are human or a bot, and where risk requires it, easily legally identify them? You can't.
- Or consider the paltry success rate of prosecuting cybercrime of 5%. Why? Criminals work out of jurisdictions around the planet where they can't be successfully prosecuted. So, while the jurisdiction you live in might trumpet their privacy laws like EU GDPR, they can't easily enforce it around the planet.
Out of the Box Ideas Requires Out of the Box Thinking
Identity crosses over all aspects of our lives. All of this is a foundational layer to rethink our lives around.
Thus, for the last six years, I've been working on an out of the box vision for rethinking legal identity for both humans and AI systems/bots, and then leveraging this to rethink learning. I'm now there with a transformational vision, architecture, costings and plans.
It delivers to each of us, control over our legal identity, our biometrics, and our behavioral data. It can work in any jurisdiction around the planet, both physically and digitally, from cradle to grave. It creates, on the fly, consent contracts, between us and third parties, with the contract being stored in a personal database we control.
It also enables us to prove, legally, anonymously we're a human (and not a bot), if we're above or below age of consent, and if we've had our Covid vaccination.
It also works for AI systems and bots. Where risk requires it, they too require legal identification. This can be used in contracts specifying what data et al they can share with other bots, people, corporations, etc.
Transformation Isn't Easy
That little red arrow veering off to the right is a symbol of out of the box thinking for out of the box times. Making change is hard because of the "herd effect". I really like the quote by Robin Sharma - "Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end."
One person can't change the planet on their own. Thus, please join me in bringing the vision into reality. To dive into the details, skim the PS section of this article.
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!!!!!!:
- We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein
- “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.” – Robin Sharma
- “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future” – John F. Kennedy
Reference Links:
An Identity Day in The Life:
My Message To Government & Industry Leaders:
National Security:
Rethinking Legal Identity, Credentials & Learning:
Learning Vision:
Creativity:
AI Agents:
- “Personal AI FinTech Agents - Risks, Security And Identity”
- “AI/Bots Health Agents, Medical IoT Devices, Risks, Privacy, Security And Legal Identity”
- “Marketing In The Age of AI Agents, Bots, Behavioural Tech and Crime”
- “Legal Departments - AI/Bots, Gen AI, AI Agents, Hives, Behavioural Tech And AI's Ability To Own LLC's”
- “AI Agents & Kids"
- “AI Agent Authorization - Identity, Graphs & Architecture”
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:
- “Legal Departments - AI/Bots, Gen AI, AI Agents, Hives, Behavioural Tech And AI's Ability To Own LLC's”
- “Marketing In The Age of AI Agents, Bots, Behavioural Tech and Crime”
- "Major Change – Future of HR"
- “AI/Bots Health Agents, Medical IoT Devices, Risks, Privacy, Security And Legal Identity”
- “TODA, EMS & Graphs – New Enterprise Architectural Tools For A New Age”
- "Entity Management System"
- "Personal AI FinTech Agents - Risks, Security And Identity"
Rethinking Enterprise Architecture In The Age of AI:
LLC's & AI:
Challenges With AI:
New Security Model:
DAO:
Kids:
Sex:
Schools:
- “The Coming Classroom Revolution – Privacy & Internet of Things In A Classroom”
- “Kids, Digital Learning Twins, Neural Biometrics, Their Data, Privacy & Liabilities”?
- “Bots, Classrooms, Privacy, Legal Identity & Contracts”
- “We Have An Identity Problem – AI/Bots in School, Home & Work”
- “Kids, Schools, AI/AR/VR, Legal Identities, Contracts and Privacy”
- “EdTech Law – Legal Identity Contracts”
- “AI, Cheating & Future of Schools/Work”
- “Using AI/Digital Learning Twins in Assessment & Education”
Biometrics:
Legal Identity:
Identity, Death, Laws & Processes:
Open Source:
Notaries:
Climate Change, Migration & Legal Identity:
Fraud/Crime:
Behavioral Marketing:
AI Systems and Bots:
- “AI, Bots & Us - Examples of Rapid Change”
- “Decentralized AI – Risks, Legal Identity, Consent & Privacy”
- "ChatGPT, AI, Identity & Privacy"
- “Why We Need To Legally Register AI Systems and Bots”
- “Why AI Regulation Requires Legal Identities of AI Systems and Bots”
- “Artificial Intelligence & Legal Identification – A Thought Paper”
- “Mission Control – We Have a Problem”
- “Lease or Rent a Bot! Rapidly Emerging Contract Law & Legal Identity Challenges”
- “The Infrastructure Behind Coordinating up to 3,000 bots in One Factory”
- “Nanobots & Legal Identity”
- “Micro Flying Bots & Legal Identity”
- “Microbots Able to Swim Through Your Body & Legal Identity”
- “Bots, Swarms, Risk & Legal Identity”
- “Nanobots, Microbots, Manufacturing, Risk, Legal Identity & Contracts”
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
- Each person when they’re born has their legal identity data plus their forensic biometrics (fingerprints, and later when they can keep their eyes open – their iris) entered into a new age CRVS system (Civil Registration Vital Statistics - birth, name/gender change, marriage/divorce and death registry) with data standards
- The CRVS writes to an external database, per single person, the identity data plus their forensic biometrics called a SOLICT “Source of Legal Identity & Credential Truth).?The person now controls this
- As well, the CRVS also writes to the SOLICT legal identity relationships e.g. child/parent, cryptographically linking the SOLICTs.?So Jane Doe and her son John will have cryptographic digitally signed links showing their parent/child.?The same methodology can be used for power of attorney/person, executor of estate/deceased, etc.
- The SOLICT in turn then pushes out the information to four different types of LSSI Devices “Legal Self-Sovereign Identity”; physical ID card, digital legal identity app, biometrically tied physical wristband containing identity information or a chip inserted into each person
- The person is now able, with their consent, to release legal identity information about themselves.?This ranges from being able to legally, anonymously prove they’re a human (and not a bot), above or below age of consent, Covid vaccinated, etc.?It also means they can, at their discretion, release portions of their identity like gender, first name, legal name, address, etc.
- NOTE: All consents granted by the person are stored in their SOLICT
- Consent management for each person will be managed by their PIAM “Personal Identity Access Management) system.?This is AI leveraged, allowing the person, at their discretion, to automatically create consent legal agreements on the fly
- It works both locally and globally, physically and digitally anywhere on the planet
- AI systems/bots are also registered, where risk requires it, in the new age CRVS system
- Governance and continual threat assessment, is done by a new, global, independent, non-profit funded by a very small charge per CRVS event to a jurisdiction to a maximum yearly amount.
A 100,000-Foot Level Summary Of The Learning Vision:
- When the learner is a toddler, with their parents’ consent, they’ll be assessed by a physical bot for their learning abilities.?This will include sight, sound, hearing and smell, as well as hand-eye coordination, how they work or don’t work with others, learning abilities, all leveraging biometric and behavioral data
- All consents given on behalf of the learner or, later in the learner’s life by the learner themselves, are stored in the learner’s SOLICT “Source of Legal Identity & Credential Truth”
- This is fed into a DLT “Digital Learning Twin”, which is created and legally bound to the learner
- The DLT the produces its first IEP “Individualized Education Plan”, for the learner
- The parents take home with them a learning assistant bot to assist the learner, each day, in learning.?The bot updates the DLT, which in turn continually refines the learner’s IEP
- All learning data from the learner is stored in their LDV “Learner Data Vault”
- When the learner’s first day of school comes, the parents prove the learner and their identities and legal relationship with the learner, via their LSSI devices (Legal Self-Sovereign Identity)
- With their consent, they approve how the learner’s identity information will be used not only within the school, but also in AI/AR/VR learning environments
- As well, the parents give their consent for the learner’s DLT, IEP and learning assistant bot to be used, via their PIAM (Personal Identity Access Management) and the learner’s PIAM
- The schools LMS “Learning Management System” instantly takes the legal consent agreements, plus the learner’s identity and learning information, and integrates this with the school’s learning systems
- From the first day, each learner is delivered a customized learning program, continually updated by both human and AI system/bot learning specialists, as well as sensors, learning assessments, etc.
- All learner data collected in the school, is stored in the learner’s LDV
- If the learner enters any AI/AR/VR type learning environment, consent agreements are created instantly on the fly with the learner, school, school districts, learning specialists, etc.?
- These specify how the learner will be identified, learning data use, storage, deletion, etc.
- When the learner acquires learning credentials, these are digitally signed by the authoritative learning authority, and written to the learner’s SOLICT.
- The SOLICT in turn pushes these out to the learner’s LSSI devices
- The learner is now in control of their learning credentials
- When the learner graduates, they’ll be able, with their consent, to offer use of their DLT, IEP and LDV to employers, post-secondary, etc.?This significantly reduces time and costs to train or help the learner learn
- The learner continually leverages their DLT/IEP/LDV until their die i.e., it’s a lifelong learning system
- IT’S TRANSFORMATIONAL OVER TIME, NOT OVERNIGHT
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