"Personhood credentials" to prove you're real... because of A.I.

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And, there's a flip side, or perhaps a different facet to the same side of the coin in all of this.  As you note, separating AI from reality will become increasingly difficult and inevitably people will use this with ill intent.  Agreed.  One of these 'slices' of ill intent is not just the use of AI to pose as something real, but quite the opposite...to use AI as a excuse or alibi to cover for something real.  In other words..."I didn't do it!  What you thought you saw was really AI."  And this is even harder still to prove.  Finding and proving false-positives is difficult enough, but now we will be faced with proving false-positives as positives which, depending on the maturity of the AI being used, could be nearly impossible.

I continue to maintain that mankind has no idea what kind of a monster it has created and unleashed on itself with AI. 

The Australian Cane Toad comes to mind, except this time it's not even a living thing, so you can't kill it.  In fact, even if you could kill it, you have no way to know if it's really dead.  And, with society's dependence on technology today, you can't "unplug" it.  Worse, you can't see it, you can't touch it, and it's certainly not going to announce its presence to you.  Why?  Because one of the first things AI will "learn" is self-preservation.